School: Tamhnach tSeiscinn (roll number 12778)
- Location:
- Tawnytaskin, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Aibhistín Ó Tárpaigh
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- (continued from previous page)bring his friends with him to her house and steal her away by night and leave her with his own friends. On the following Sunday the priest called out his name in the church and he would have to tell the priest he was sorry for breaking the Laws of the Catholic Church and the priest would marry them immediately. The marriages parties marched in couples to the Church headed by a man on a white horse and when the cermony was over the man on horse galloped to the bride's house and announced the arrival of the bridal party. The two oldest members of the house proceeded for about a hundred yards from the house with a bottle of whiskey and a glass and every one of the party had to drink health of the bride and groom. Then the glass in which it served was solemnly broken over the heads of the newly married couple. There was plenty of feasting and dancing all the night after. The bride never went to her former home for about a month and at the end of the month when the bride paid a visit to her parents home and all the neighbours gathered again for a big dance.
- Collector
- James Moraghan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Rachel Moraghan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Lowparks, Co. Roscommon
