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School: Caisleán hAicéid

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Castlehacket, Co. Galway
Teacher:
S. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0025, Page 0098

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    Marriages long ago. 7th June. ’38.
    It was a custom of the people of my locality long ago to get married on a Friday between Trinity Sunday and Saint Peter and Paul’s Day. They thought that Friday was a lucky day for getting married. If they got married any other day of the week it was said that the pair would be constantly fighting with each other.
    When a man wanted a wife for his son he went to a market or fair. If he happened to meet a man who had a daughter he made the match. The two fathers as a rule used to go and walk each others farms to see how wealthy each was.
    The fortune usually given was forty hedd of cattle and a hundred sheep. It used to be given a week or nine
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie O' Dowd
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cluidrevagh, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mary Burke
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    67
    Address
    Cluidrevagh, Co. Galway