School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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Long ago all the old people used be in cuaird and they would only draw down about getting the son or daughter of that house married .The would ask would they take the person they had picked and the son or daughter would have to say they would.
Then a couple of them would go and select a bit of land.The son would not see the girl he was to get or the girl would not see the man .Then they would kill a pig that night and boil some of the meat and a couple of big pots of potatoes and invite(continues on next page)- Collector
- Julia Corry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Tom Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare