School: An Tuar Mór
- Location:
- Toormore, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 240
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- (continued from previous page)groom is fitting the ring on the bride's finger no children will be born to the pair until that Knot is loosed.
Bride is supposed to wear "Something old something new, something borrowed something blue"
Whoever enters house first after marriage ceremony will live the longest.
The bride's mother should not be in the church during the ceremony.
Straw-boys visit the house on wedding night + play music + dance. They have their faces disguised + no-one is supposed to refuse them to dance. They are usually given a mug of porter.
Band-beggars is another name for them.
