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School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)

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Milltown, Co. Kildare
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S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 465

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 465

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  1. Local Marriage Customs

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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
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