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School: Teampall Mhuire

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Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
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Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0144, Page 357

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  1. Old Customs in Marriage

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    Long ago when a marriage would take place it used to be a great day. People who used to have a wedding used to have many couples invited.
    The girls and women used to wear cloaks, one of them long down to the ground, and the other shorter, and there used to be the cloaks for their heads, and they wore very strong boots.
    The men used to wear frocks, or long tailed coats called casogs.
    Horses that were used then, no cars, or no motors. The man that would be for getting married, would come riding on a horse for the girl, and she would sit up behind him. All the other couples riding on horses used to go after them to he chapel.
    Then when they would be coming back to the wedding house, they used to be striving for to see who would come
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Mc Hale
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tooreen, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Bridget Kearney
    Relation
    Not a relative
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonalaghan, Co. Mayo