School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 196
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- Years ago there was a marriage in Mt Nugent. The bride was a Miss MacCabe of Crosira and the groom was Mick Farnan from Ballymanus. The marrige took place at about twelve o'clock. It was the custom at that time of having a race on horse back for the bottle. They were going at high speed when the horse fell and killed a brother of the brother of brides about six feet from the house where the bride was going to live. When the rest of the wedding party came along it was a great surprise to them to see him killed. So that ended the wedding.
- Collector
- Pilib Mac Gabhann
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mary Donohue
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- On the top of the hill at Ballinrick there used to be a Slate Factory. There is a pile of Slates in a part of the yard taken off a house called Lees house it was six foot higher then
