School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- Long ago an old marriage custom was for a man to get another neighbour man and go to a house, where there would be a nice girl, and they would bring a pint [?] of whisky with them, and when they would get drunk one of them would be friendly to the girl. In them days, was the girl sat one side of the fire, and the man that was intend to marry her sat the other side, and her mother sat between both of them, and the talked about pigs, and cattle, and how to feed them, and he would be afraid to ask the girl, would she marry him until they would be going home, and when he would be half way out in the door he would shout back to her mother, will you give me your daughter and she would say I would want to see your place first, and have you plenty of money because my daughter is the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Heany
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumegil, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Bertie Stafford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumegil, Co. Cavan
