School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- Carran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0616B, Page 05_016
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- Long ago there were a great many customs attached to marriages. They used have no Mass and the marriage used take place in the evening. In the morning the man and his neighbours go to the womans house and in the evening the would have a race to the chapple When they would be married they would go to the mans house and would have a wedding until morning
- Once upon a time a man went to a fair with a sow. When he reached the fair grounds he met a man who started to buy the pig. When he had the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tomás Ó Lochlainn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Clare
