School: Páirc an Chuilinn (Hollygrove) (roll number 15138)
- Location:
- Hollygrove, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Gleannáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0368
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- (continued from previous page)and I'm sure herself is all right as well. I'll call and see her some time when I'm not in a hurry".
Another story tells of the mother knocking at her daughter's bedroom door in the early morning and shouting: "Get up, Mary you are getting married today". "Arrah! to who? Mary would say.
Oftentimes the bride-to-be would see for the first time her future husband in the chapel on the wedding day. Being doubtful as to which of the strangers present was to take her for "better or worse" she would nudge a neighbour or cousin and ask with which of the men was her match made.
In Toughmaconnell a place between Ballinasloe and Athlone they have what is called a "Shine(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Conneally
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hollygrove, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Conneally
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hollygrove, Co. Galway
