School: Cnapach
- Location:
- Knappagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hionruaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 098
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- (continued from previous page)famous cobbler named Jemmy Chambers. Johnny McElroy, and Patrick Martin are cobblers also.
Edward Duffy, Drumchonion is a tailor this thirty years.
Bob Chambers Dromod and Joseph Jordan are crpenters.
- The weddings of today are more up to date than those which would be forty years ago.
Today match-making is a thing of the past. Usually the intended couple have made the acquaintance of each other some time before their marraige.
If the bride has not a dowry of her own she gets it from her father or brother, or who ever the responsible person may be, sometimes money is given as well as stock
Long ago side-cars would be their mode of travelling. Sometimes there would be a race and who-ever was first got a bottle of whiskey.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kate Mc Gorry
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Moynagh
- Gender
- Male
