School: Muine Chonnalláin B.
- Location:
- Bunnyconnellan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Lochnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 318
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As the season for sowing seeds is Spring, Shrove is the season for getting married. Even in a small parish like this, there was often as many as ten or twelve marriages on Shrove Tuesday. Long ago when a man wanted to get married he looked round for a suitable wife. Then he would send one of his friends to ask the girl. If the parents of the girl and the girl herself consented, the man who wanted to get married and his friend would go at night to the girls house. They would arrange about the marriage and about the fortune. The fortune was, generally, a hundred pounds and a cow.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Muldoon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thady Muldoon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo
