School: Robertson (roll number 12276)
- Location:
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Liam Ó Morchadh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 151
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- (continued from previous page)he has and what he can do.So they decided if they will get married. The fore-speaker generally carried a bottle of whisky.When they went away on their honeymoon some tie boots and old tin pans to the back of the car.
Thomas Dobson.
In olden times when they got married they go away for a long ride in their car and in the evening they have their dances at the crowning of the road.
- In olden days when they got married they went away for a long run in a side car and when they came back they would be a big dance or entermaint of some kind.
Nan Watson (12) - In olden times when they got married they go away for a long ride in their car and in the evening they have their dances at the crossing of the road.
Finlay Russell
Rectory Lodge - Collector
- Finlay Russell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Bella Russell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 34
- Address
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
