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School: Baile i Meadhon Locha (roll number 344)

Location:
Bellanaman, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
C. Nic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0961, Page 087

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    said that the people were much healthier than the people nowadays. The man's age was twenty-nine and the girl's age was twenty two. Both were agreeable to getting married and so the wedding day was fixed.
    When the parents of Loreto and Bernard heard that they were going to get married (the wedding) they disagreed.
    The day of the wedding was broken up and when the country people heard that, they a poem about them.

    They forced me to run away with bloomin Lettie Roe
    To John Hughes's of Foyduff, said they you now must go
    And we will follow after,
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Maureen Hughes
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Sillis, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Michael Huhges
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Sillis, Co. Monaghan