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School: Fleasgach (roll number 15842)

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Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
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Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0012, Page 392

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    Marriages 36-9-'38
    It was an old custom that a shoe should be thrown after the married couple for luck. On the night of the wedding they boys dressed themselves up and tied straw ropes round them and went round gathering money. June is the luckiest month for getting married. It was an old custom that the bride should wear something borrowed. Side-cars and men on horseback were usually at the drivening home.
    Teller
    Mrs. E Dowd
    Flaskagh
    Dunmore
    Tuam
    Co. Galway
    Writer
    Nuala Dowd
    Dunmore
    Tuam
    Co. Galway
    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
    Nuala Dowd
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs E. Dowd
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Flaskagh More, Co. Galway