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School: Christ Church, Castlebar (roll number 14358)

Location:
Castlebar, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
A. C. Ní Mhaitiú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0154, Page 212

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    Marriage Customs
    We often have a wedding in our village but children under sixteen are not allowed to go to it. They always have a barrel of stout at the wedding and all kinds of fruit. People should always wear something new and something old, something borrowed, and something blue. Long ago people say that the man used to have to buy the wife for money but they never do that now. Tom Jordan said that his father before him had to buy his wife before him, he to give three good bullocks
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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
    Eva Carson
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloontybaunan, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Carson
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloontybaunan, Co. Mayo