School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 176
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- (continued from previous page)such as any shop-bills owing, if money is taken in any bank, and how much the old people must get. The women do their part of the talking.
Drinks are called for each party trying to soften the other. Many a match is broken, because the old woman wants to keep all the hens, or the old man wants to keep the creamery ass.
If they come to terms, the boy and girl meet, after which, they decide to go to a solicitor to make the bindings. Both parties sign it.
- Collector
- John Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Buckley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
