School: Clonlara
- Location:
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Heoghanáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 073
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Clonlara
- XML Page 073
- XML “Marriages”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Marriages in olden times often where a nice girl would be in a house, she would be stolen away to marry some man often into another country. Her father when she would be missed would gather his faction and ride of to rescue her. In some cases they would get her back, often times the marriage would have taken place before they got there and often the girl would be held until ransom money was paid for her release. They used protect their daughters then for fear they would be stolen. They used have back sticks on the door and iron bars on the windows.
Marriages in later years were matched ones. Where a girl would have a fortune her father would look out for a suitable partner that would have lands and means to suit the money and a marriage would be arranged. These marriages usually took place in Shrove or November any other time was not considered lucky. No marriage would take place in May as it was most(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Malachy Dinneen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Clare
