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School: Caisleán hAicéid

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Castlehacket, Co. Galway
Teacher:
S. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0025, Page 0095

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  1. Marriages at the Present Time

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    The time of the year that the people of my locality get married is from New Year's Day to Ash Wednesday. People of my locality have it as an old superstition that the pair would live a long life together if married at that time of the year.
    Before a marriage comes a matchmaking. If the fathers of a boy and girl meet in a town they give each other drink. They then ask each other if the pair are a good match. The boy has to get a good fortune from the girl's father.
    At other times the boy's father gives a word to two or three men in the locality to be in search of a wife for his son.
    The fortune usually given by the people of this district is four hundred and eighty
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eddie Kearns
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Pollnahallia, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Martin Kearns
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    46
    Address
    Pollnahallia, Co. Galway