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School: Cill Críosta

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Kilchreest, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Seán Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0035, Page 0322

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    Old Ireland was noted for its grand old habits and antiquities. Even in the ordinary country life there was some trace of romance and beauty.
    Take for instance marriages. The people would go to the house of the bride to be and purchase her as it were. Often times they gave land for a number of years other times stock such as cattle sheep etc. but the usual kind of fortune was money.
    When the bride was purchased they were then married and a great feast commonly known as a wedding would be made.
    Unlike to the present day weddings and the people who came to the wedding used always being a goose prepared for cooking. Often times there was forty geese at a wedding not mentioning all other
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mena Fallon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Raheen Oughter, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Fallon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Raheen Oughter, Co. Galway