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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 219

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  1. Local Marriage Customs

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    About eighty years ago a man named Patrick Kettyle, Killrue, Cootehill, Co. Cavan got married to a girl named Miss Ellie Dowd, Drumnaveel, Cootehill.
    When the marriage was over they all went to the nearest town and drank whiskey and porter. The only way of travelling in those days was on sidecars and horses. When they were finished drinking they put the horses in the cars and they all started to gallop their horses to see which of them would get home first.
    At a place between Foy's Mill and Mr. McEntee's cross when one car was passing another one of them overturned and fell into a stream. Miss Reilly, the bridesmaid, got her leg broken.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Philomena Mc Phillips
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killyrue, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Patrick Mc Phillips
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killyrue, Co. Cavan