School: Killaraght (roll number 11755)
- Location:
- Killaraght, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Annie Brennan
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- (continued from previous page)resumed their former positions untill the small hours of the morning.
- Marriages in the olden times were not the same as they are to-day. In those days there was a "match maker" going round the country settling matches and if the match was settled he was paid a sum of money for his trouble. His method of doing business was this : - The match maker would go to this young man's house and tell him about a certain young girl that lived a few miles away. She had perhaps sixty or eighty pounds fortune. She was a good worker and a fine girl. The young man approved of all this, so the match-maker went away to the young girl's home(continues on next page)