School: Caisleán hAicéid
- Location:
- Castlehacket, Co. Galway
- Teacher: S. Ó Floinn
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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(continues on next page)- Collector
- Annie O' Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cluidrevagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mary Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Cluidrevagh, Co. Galway