School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Baile an Gharrdha (roll number 15334)
- Location:
- Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr Celestín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0563, Page 070
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- Very few marriages occur in this district and really as it is at present the population consists of old men, old women and middle-aged bachelors, as well as a crowd of old maids.
On Shrove Tuesday the bulk of the marriages take place and, needless to say, they are mostly "made matches". A man in a fairly comfortable position in life seeks a wife of similar status and perhaps the barony does not hold such. He travels till he finds her and the knot is tied in the girl's parish to the delight of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Bhroin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary
