Jim - do they still have dancing at a crossroads in Ireland - or has that gone the way of all things?

One of my Great-Grandmothers (born in Notts., but of Irish parents from Kildare) described to me (when I was very young) the experience of being taken to Ireland as a young girl by her parents and seeing a dancing platform set up at a crossroads, with fiddlers and other musicians, for a rural dance. There were also large cauldrons bubbling away containing "crubeens" - pigs' trotters - and crates of some dark liquid in bottles...