Local Marriage Customs
My mother and father were married on the 1st February 1923 on a Thursday. They were married by the Rev. Father Waldron P.P. Keelogues. They had twelve of the nearest friends with them and they had three motor cars.
After the marriage they drove through Ballyvary Turlough and on to Castlebar. When they were coming home to Keelogues my grandfather Thomas Taylor made a fire out on the hillside because it was an old custom.
That night a wedding took place in Keelogues in my grandfathers house. They had three half-barrels of stout. About sixty guests were invited to the wedding.
Forty or fifty straw boys came and they went up on top of the house going to knock it if they wouldn't get drink. They got two drinks each and then they danced and sang songs. They went home about 3 o'clock in the morning. My father and mother stayed in Keelogues that night and they came to Prizon next morning.
“NFORMANT Thomas Reilly; Age, 42, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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