School: Tuar an Fhíona, Baile na Molt (roll number 8133)
- Location:
- Tuar an Fhíona, Co. Phort Láirge
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0647, Page 100
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- The marriages at the present are different from the marriages of long ago. The old people used to make the match. If a boy wanted to get married his father would go to the girls house and ask the parent's consent. Then they would get married. The girl should bring a big fortune into the boy's place. They would have an all-night dance. Beer was cheap at the time and they used to have three or four half-barrels of beer. On horse-back they used to go to the marriages. They used to have a súgán saddle. It was an old custom when Shrove was gone that if a boy was not married, to paint out an old woman on the pier or if a woman lived in the house they would draw out a man.
Another old custom if they did not get married, some people would take the clothes from the clothes-line and dress up a stick with the clothes and leave it outside(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Breathnach
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Béal na Molt, Co. Phort Láirge
- Informant
- Mairghreadh Barún
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Béal na Molt, Co. Phort Láirge
