School: Cilleanna (Kilhanna), Maghcromtha (roll number 13193)
- Location:
- Johnstown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Henry Goode
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0339, Page 015
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- (continued from previous page)arrange to meet in the nearest town, generally on a fair day. The parents of both the boy and girl meet in a private room of a public house. Here they discuss the matter. The man's father informs the girl's father the amount of fortune he wants, and if the latter is able to give his daughter such a fortune, they make some agreement before leaving the public house. Money is given as a fortune. It is seldom, stock or goods are given, but sometimes the girl may receive them as a present.
In this parish marriages generally take place in a chapel, but in some neighbouring parishes they still take place in the houses.
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