School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 465
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- before the wedding day is appointed. Money is very rarely gives as a dowry, but vessels and furniture and other things are sometimes give. On the wedding day, when the wedding-party return from the church and eat their breakfast they sometimes go away to some distant place for that day, and sometimes they go away to other countries for a month or so for their honeymoon; but those who return that night generally have a party, and a dance, all night, in the bride's house.
I got this information form my father.
Joseph Maguire (age 47)
Hawkfield Droichead Nua.
Co. Kildare
Signed: Nell Maguire(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Curran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Punchersgrange, Co. Kildare
- (continued from previous page)Local Marriage CustomsLocal marriages do not take place in Lent or Advent in my district. They usually take place in a rush before Lent or in the month of November just before Advent. Thursday and Fridays and Saturdays are said o be unlucky days, and May is said to be an unlucky month.
