School: Aughacashel (roll number 15356)
- Location:
- Aghacashel, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Joseph Conifry
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 432
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The lucky months of the year for getting married are June and April, while the unlucky months are March and May. The lucky days of the week are Monday,Wednesday and Thursday.It is still the custom among the farming community to arrange marriages for their sons and daughters. This is called Match making. The match making is done in a business like way. The young or his father or both, bring a neighbour with them to the house of the bride, or an arrangement is made that both parties meet in a certian public house on a market or fair day. There the merits of the young man and woman are spoken of. The land which either the girl or boy is owner of, the stock on the land, the distance from town, chapel and school, the rents and the rates of the place, the b debt if any, and then the fortune required from the one entering the new home. If everything goes well up to this point the young couple are introduced to each other and then the date of the wedding is arranged. The young man or his father when going to the bride's house brings(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lillie Mahon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Matthew Earley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bunrevagh, Co. Leitrim
