School: Cnoc Rua
- Location:
- Knockroe, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Mac Diarmada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 363
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- Marriages take place in this country at Shrove. That is from the sixth of January untill the day before Ash Wednesday. People say that Mondays and Thursdays are the luckey days for getting married. When there is a boy and a girl going to married the father and the boy and the girl's father goes to town and go into a Hotel and make the match. It is decided the fortune the boy and girl is going to get. Whether it is a £200 or £300 and so on. Then the boy and the girl go into a room for themselves and if they like each other they will get married. Then the marriage takes place the next day. After the marriage they have a wedding. Their friends come and they dance and sing the whole night long. When the wedding is over the boys and girls go home. Sometimes straw boys come to the house and dance with the bride and bridegroom. They dress in all sorts of funny clothes and straw hats and some wear false faces. They carry old scythes and pitch forks as wepons some take a glass of porter and others do not. This is a story of a man who went to make his match. Once upon a time there was a man and he went down in the north of this country to make his match. When he came home a man asked him did he make a good match. He said "They say(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Kate Carty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Patrick Carty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Roscommon
