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School: Corr Garrdha (roll number 15228)

Location:
Corgerry Eighter, Co. Galway
Teachers:
M. Ó Dubhláin M. Ó Muineacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 493

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    wedding - day or night were candles lit in the windows of houses and wisps made from straw, lighting on the sides of the roads. A wedding feast is also held. The bridegroom first invites his friends and they come to the bride's house where there is a wedding prepared for them and also her friends.
    They spend some time there and then go to the chapel and are married. They then come home to the bridegroom's house which was called in the olden times a "bringing home" or a Drag. Another wedding was prepared there for them and the night was spent there in all kinds of amusements. The bride used to go with her brother on horseback to the chapel and behind her husband home.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Egan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynalahy, Co. Galway