School: An Cheathrú Mhór
- Location:
- Carrowmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Glacáin
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- (continued from previous page)one it was called, and over that agaiam they wore a big cape collar trimmed with velvet.
They used not wear caps or hats but instead they had a hud like the nuns wear but far bigger. My grandmother had one of those rigs but her household cut them up and mad other clothes out of them.
Some couples used go to the chapel on horseback when they were getting married and the woman used ride behind the man and the man in front leading the horse.
The man made the saddle himself. It was a straw mat and a nicer leather saddle tied on to it for the woman.
Kathleen Duggan
St Patricks N.S.
Carrowmore - Lacken
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- Collector
- Kathleen Duggan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Bernard Duggan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Carrowmore, Co. Mayo
