Marymass

alternative Marymas

1. A festival held on 15 August in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary; Assumption.

   You could see it then, the moor crowded with Marymass revellers, the town's inhabitants.

   2010, Andrew O'Hagan, Be Near Me, page 201

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   The Shows which had previously filled High Street from Bridgegate to the Kirk Vennel each April (for the Bogside Races) and at Marymass were banished to the Moor, then to the Golffields.

   1985, John Strawhorn, The History of Irvine: Royal Burgh and New Town, page 192

   Marymass was a festival of heavy drinking for industrial Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, and for Glasgow. In 1865, 700 gallons of whisky were delivered to Irvine on the Monday before Marymass.”

   2000, John Burnett, Riot, Revelry, and Rout: Sport in Lowland Scotland Before 1860