School: Lugnaskeehan (roll number 6562)
- Location:
- Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Eibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 435
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- (continued from previous page)would say they were. They would ask out the bride and groom first to dance and then the bridesmaid and groomsman would be asked to dance. The straw boys would get up themselves and dance after.
Local Marriage Customs
“In olden times the Parish priest lived in Mullaghmore not in Killargue as at present.”
In olden times the parish priest lived in Mullaghmore not in Killargue as at present.
Then the people got married in the priest's house and he would not marry anymore after ten o'clock. One night a pair went to get married. Their names were John Fowly and Molly Carney. They went to the priest's house to get(continues on next page) - Collector
- Moyia Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Francis Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
