School: Carn an Ríogh (roll number 11619)
- Location:
- Carrownree, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Éamonn Mac Énrí
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People getting married always had one or sometimes two hundred pounds, and others had a farm of land instead.
When the bride was getting married her parents gave her a young heifer and she left ten or maybe twelve pounds for the cow.
The bride always had a box in which she kept her clothes and shoes and she is supposed to have embroidered these herself.
Many of these red boxes are yet to be seen in a few houses of the district, but the customs of olden times are forgotten by the people.- Collector
- Henry Supple
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonamanagh, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James Supple
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonamanagh, Co. Sligo