School: Goirtín

Location:
Gorteen, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0078, Page 217

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0078, Page 217

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    When the bride would be coming in the door, they would break an oaten cake over her head. It was wrong to meet another wedding party or to pass a grave yard. The women used to sit behind the men on horse back.
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  2. It was an old custom for the mother to give her daughter, the bride, a feather bed after the marriage.
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