School: Lattoon
- Location:
- An Leatóin, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: P. Ó Hiorraí
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- (continued from previous page)the house they dance and sing around the floor. After that they get some food and lots of beer and after all they go home in the best of humour.
Long ago a wedding procession was held. The people of the wedding used to run races on horse back on the way home. In olden times wives used to sit on the horses with their husbands. At the present time a wedding procession is not held nor wives do not sit on the horses with their husbands either.
Straw boys were more numerous long ago than they are now but in some places they do still go about.
On Shrove Tuesday it is said that the girls have a puss on them for the time that is in.
- Collector
- Margaret Mc Intyre
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lismeen, Co. an Chabháin
