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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 225

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    Long ago at marriages the people had no motors so they rode on horseback. In sixteen hundred and seventy-three Patrik Reilly and Annie Hughes got married and after the marriage they got their breakfast in the nearest town. After their breakfast they both rode on horseback to Dundalk. When they spent awhile riding through Dundalk they went into an hotel and got their dinner. After they had eaten their dinner they rode for home and got
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Floody
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Kathleen Gilcreest
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dinginavanty, Co. Cavan