School: Droichead a' Chláirín (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Clarinbridge, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Sabhaois
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033, Page 0186
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- Match-Making 24..2..38
Match-Making is still carried on in this district but not as much as it was fifteen or twenty years ago.
There is always a fair held in Clarinbridge about the 11th of February and it was at this fair that all the interested parties used to meet.Match-Making is mostly carried on in Shrove time.
When a man wanted to get his son married he usually made an appointment to meet another man who had a daughter to get married. They would have a few drinks and then have a talk about the match.
The man would send a friend of his to the girl's house to ask the girl of the father and mother. He usually had a bottle of whiskey or a quart(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Foy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clarinbridge, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Foy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Clarinbridge, Co. Galway
