School: Cluain na Cille (roll number 9216)

Location:: Cloonakille, Co. Roscommon
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Old Marriage Customs

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About 70 or 80 years ago country people commonly rode on horseback to the church on the occasion of a marriage, while the ladies rode on a pillion behind the horsemen. They wore the large black cloak with a hood which was the fashionable dress of the period. My mother remembered seeing a marriage party of this kind in Ballyforan, when she was a young girl. After the ceremony, all the guests remounted for the homeward journey but the bride - the most important member - being a stout girl, could not mount for a long time and tried to hide her blushes in her cloak. To add to her embarrassment, all the guests had galloped away, cheering joyously, and
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Topics
1. activities
  social activities (~7)
  rites of passage (~573)
  marriage (~4,283)
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