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1. Local Marriage Customs (ar lean)

   

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   People remember marriages taking place in the houses long ago.
   My father told me that "wedding feasts were the usual custom in W. Kerry, his his young days. He says that often as many as 30 sheep were killed for a wedding. Some of these were accepted as wedding present of course - given by friends of bride and bridegroom. Besides these, geese were killed, and plenty bread was bought. Potatoes were boiled during the wedding day and supper tables were laid for the night of the wedding, and people ate plenty potatoes, and meat, and drank mutton broth go leór. He told me of a funny incident of a wedding which he attended, when a person ,who was slightly inebriated after his day's outing sat down at table near him. The first thing he got was a bowl of mutton broth which was at boiling point, and being thirsty this poor may unconsciously put the bowl to his mouth taking a big gulp. The boiling broth scaled his tongue & throat. He dropped the bowl with a yell. spilling it all over himself and he had unfortunately to get up from the table and afterwards was "the show of the house" applying draughts of cold water to his tongue which he could not keep in. He spent the latter portion of the night showing his tongue to everybody in the house and asking every few minutes "Is there a blister on it"?
   Invitations were sent out, my father says, to everybody especially villagers and cousins. Friends and everybody up to 3rd cousins were invited to the wedding feast which was held in

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   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. marriage (~4,283)

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   Ballynahinch, Co. Kerry