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School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí

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Listowel, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Brian Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1126, Page 318

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  1. Local Marriage Customs (continued)

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    a pint and in the night time they used to come into the house with big straw hats and torn clothes and sing and dance until about twelve o'clock and others used to come in and go away about seven.
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  2. Local Marriage Customs

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    Long ago on Chalk Sunday a crowd of boys would gather together and any person man or woman who was not married, they would give them a chalk on the back so as to let the public know that they were not married and had let Shrove pass by and that they were on the Skelleg Rock for another twelve months to repent for not getting married.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    David Barry
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Listowel, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mr J. Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Listowel, Co. Kerry