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School: Naomh Aicnidh (roll number 1573)

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Buncrana, Co. Donegal
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Ristéard Ó hAoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 114

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    with potkeen for them. Sometimes when the girls parents has got no money she gets a cow or some animal as a dowary. On the wedding morning crowds of people gather to the church and some men have guns with them to fire shots after the wedding. Whenever the wedding party comes out of the church the people go and shake hands with them and wish them many happy days. Long ago the people used to go to the weddings on horseback and the women used to ride behind the men on an iron hoop and a seat in it and it attached to the saddle and it is called a pilon.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Willie Diver
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carvagh, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    William Mc Laughlin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    89
    Address
    Carvagh, Co. Donegal