School: Baile Ruadh (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Ballyroe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhearghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0013, Page 178
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Local Marriage Customs (continued)
“Marriages most frequently take place in our locality during Shrove”
(continued from previous page)Matches are made in our district and money and furniture and bed- clothes and sometimes stock were given by some people and this is a story I heard of from my father in which stock was given as dowry.
Martin Garvey,
Woodbed,
Dunmore,
got married to Brigid Connolly,
Gorafranes,
Dunmore,
and the fortune she had to get from her brother was a Cow and a Calf, and the day of her marriage she drove her forture the Cow and Calf before her into the Church-yard while the marriage was being performed and drove them home again to her husbands house.
The first allowed into the house after the marriage is the married couple and no other can go in until they have entered. There were great illuminations when a marriage would come. The neighbours would lit bonfires and sods of turf to welcome home the marriage.
A wedding feast is held in the bride-grooms house, when the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Róisín Ní Chadhain
- Other names
- Róisín Ní Chadhain
- Rose Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowroe, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Seán Ó Cadhain
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Williamstown, Co. Galway