School: Cluainín, Granard
- Location:
- Clooneen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)to the house and married the couple. This custom is now extinct & the groom goes to the chapel of the parish in which the bride lives to be married.
Matches were made in the locality & that custom is still observed. The girl got a fortune either in money, land or cattle. Nowadays, however, money is always the fortune. This was generally the way in which marriages were brought about amongst the farming community in the area. A boy who intended marrying a girl had two men of his own choice sent to the girls house to make the match. They always brought a pint of whiskey with them.
These two men's mission was to find out how much money, etc the girl was going to receive as a fortune. If the groom-to-be was satisfied with matters arrangements were made for the parents(continues on next page)
