School: Rush Hall, Mountrath (roll number 12231)
- Location:
- Baile Mhaí, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: P. Ó Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 286
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- (continued from previous page)is thought unlucky to be married in. Matches are made,money and stock given as a dowry in this district. A wedding feast is generally held and the friends and neighbours invited. They eat and drink,sing and dance all that day until the next morning when the happy couple go the their future home or away on their honeymoon. People blow horns before the wedding.
- Mass was celebrated in Carroll's Pit (of Mannin) and in Coopers pit (of the Pike) in Penal Times. One Mass path goes from the bog road through Doorleys of Loran on to the Mannin road
