School: Carrigeengeare (roll number 8672)
- Location:
- Carrigeengeare, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Muireadhaigh
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- Runaway Marriages are not nearly so common as they were sixty years ago. Formerly the groom and his best man would come to the bride's house and steal the bride and elope out of the neighbourhood of her home, bringing her to the house of some friend of his. The bride's parents sent for her to come home there was no marriage till some time afterwards. During her stay the groom's-man was supposed to come every night to see the prospective bride lest she might elope with some other suitor as often happened.(continues on next page)