School: Newtown (roll number 15531)
- Location:
- Newtown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eileen Hughes
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- XML “Marriage Customs”
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- Marriages take place most frequently during Shrove in our district. May and November are thought unlucky for marriage. Match-making is connected with Shrove. A man is sent to look for a wife for another man they appoint to meet in town, and then the match is made. The man gives a bottle of whiskey to the man that asked the girl for him, and it is drunk in the girl's house that night. As a general rule a dowry is given by the woman's father to the man.
This is called(continues on next page)- Collector
- Cáit Ní Riain
- Gender
- Female