School: Beárna Dhearg (B) (roll number 14633)
- Location:
- Barnaderg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Flaithrí Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0026, Page 0141
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- XML “Marriages in the Old Times”
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- (continued from previous page)long stick and put a bucket or a little can at the end of it. They would put this stick into the house, the people inside would fill it with porter. Then they'd go up the fields and drink it there.(END)
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- Collector
- Patrick Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barnaderg, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Kate Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Barnaderg, Co. Galway
- (1) Before you marry; be sure of a house wherein to tarry?(2) There is no feast till a roast and no torment till marriage(3) A good wife is better than a pot of gold?
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