School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)
- Location:
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0239
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- (continued from previous page)“match the wedding”. All the friends and neighbours would be gathered. Then they would name a day for the marriage. Each party would gather its own friends. They would have up to twenty side cars and men on horse-back. This was called a “dragging home.” Whilst they were away the neighbours used have a boiler of cabbage and bacon and perhaps roast fowl and oatmeal bread. When the newly married couple would come in they would make them kneel at the door and break an oaten cake over their heads.
A crowd of straw boys used to gather from different villages and the people in the house used to bring out cans of porter to them.
The groom wore freize coat with a black velvet collar on it and the bride wore a shawl.
In olden times when a man made his own match he would steal the girl from a dance or a fair or any other place where they met.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Búrca
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- William Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lehid, Co. Galway
