School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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- Mr Lonegan
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- Age
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- Address
- Boggaun, Co. Leitrim
- Marriages are most frequent a day or two before Lent Shrove Tuesday, which to the day before Lent is a favorite day for marriages, especially run away marriages where is no word about the wedding till that day and then the couple got married secretly. Sometimes before a couple get married some one is got to make the match. In olden times there was a professional matchmaker who was paid for during that sort of work. Parents or some other near relations gave her money as a fortune and sometimes a farm of land was given. "Smuth" Sunday is the(continues on next page)
