School: Carrickgorman
- Location:
- Carrickgorman, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Fleming
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- (continued from previous page)dowery to the bride but there is never any stock given nowadays.
Sometimes there are articles given such as clothes and china as dowery.
About one hundred years ago the people used to have marriages in the houses and after they would go away for a while.
- In the Penal days there was no house set apart for priests to say mass in, they said it in caves, in rocks, or any place where they could hide, and often went as poor men begging or playing a fiddle to disguise themselves because there was a price put on their head.
Anyone giving information against them got five pounds, all the chapels were knocked down or burnt, this is handed down from one generation to another.
In Mybologue graveyard there is one of these chapels, and another in Gallon, in the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Willie Roundtree
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrickgorman, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Miss Carrie
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Togher, Co. Cavan
