School: Leyney (roll number 15384)
- Location:
- Carrownacleigha, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Sinéad de Brugha
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- Local marriage customs
Most marriage occur during Shrove as it is supposed to be the luckiest time of the year; the month of May is supposed to be very unlucky and hardly anyone is married then. In olden times hardly any marriages were not match-made.
There was once a man and he had two daughters; Annie and Maria. A man came looking for one of them to be his wife, and the father said Annie was the best. He came a few times and was keeping company with Annie and the date of the wedding was settled to be in a week. At the same time he thought a good deal of Annie's sister.
One evening a few days before the wedding he was away in a town and as he passed the chapel he thought he would go in. He was thinking of his(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mr E. Mc Dermott
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathbarran, Co. Sligo
