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School: Ballycloghan, Ardagh (roll number 9827)

Location:
Ballycloghan, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Mary Ledwith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0754, Page 191

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    The wedding party would then return to the brides house for dinner. In the evening a dance would began and continued for a few hours. Then about half past ten or eleven at night the bridegroom would take his bride to his own home where his own friends would be waiting to receive the bride. Other customs were are follows If a man was very keen on having a girl for his wife he would arrange with her to "run away" with him He would then bring her on horseback to some remote place usually to a friends house Both would stay the night in this house and after that they would go to a church.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Violet Ledwith
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballycloghan, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Michael Dalton
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Druming, Co. Longford