School: Páirc an Chuilinn (Hollygrove) (roll number 15138)
- Location:
- Hollygrove, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Gleannáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0365
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Local Marriage Customs.
When a man is getting married he asks a neighbour or a friend to ask a wife for him. Then the girls father and the man's father meet in some hotel and make the match. They arrange the day and the hour on which they will be married.
When they are going out to be married an(d) 00old shoe is thrown after them and sometimes an old shoe is tied to the motor car. When they are coming home after their (marriage) fires are lit along the sides of the road. The village people light candles in windows. When they are going in the door an oaten cake is broken over their heads.
The evening of their marriage they invite all their friends and cousins and have a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Conneally
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hollygrove, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Conneally
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hollygrove, Co. Galway
