School: Scoil Mhuire, Béal Átha hAmhnais (roll number 11438)
- Location:
- Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S.T. Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 242
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- The people in my local district usually get married during the period from the first of January to Shrove Tuesday.
Mondays and Fridays are supposed to be unlucky days to get married.
The matches are made in a public house on a marked day or a fair-day by the parties concerned and sometimes there is a neighbor with them. There is usually a dowry of money given by the bride but if the bridegroom is going to live in the brides home and if her parents are alive the bridegroom has to give them money.
Stock or goods are never given as dowry in my district.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Joseph Cruise
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockbrack, Co. Mayo
