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School: Fothar (roll number 16903)

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Faugher, Co. Donegal
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Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1076, Page 361

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1076, Page 361

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    skirt to the top. Some of the people that got married were very poor and could not afford to buy a ring so the used to put the key of the chapel door on their fingers for a ring.
    Ranting season is the luckiest time to get married this is the weeks between Christmas and Lent.
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      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
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    The old fashioned marriages they wore long dresses and shawls. The also walked to the chapel
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