School: Céad na Mínseach (roll number 5498)
- Location:
- Kednaminsha, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0932, Page 156
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- (continued from previous page)big hats on them. They take the bride outside and begin to dance with her. Then the groom goes out and gives them money. The parents made matches for the bride-and-groom. In this part of the contry money is given as a dowry by the bride's parents to the bride for the groom. One person from the bride's side and another from the groom's side have a race and who ever wins got a bottle of whiskey. They would not take the cork of it but break the neck of it and take a long drink.
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“A Protestant family of the name of "Acheson's" was living beyond Inniskeen, in Co. Louth...”
(continued from previous page)could keep him. They begged the Priest to remove him, and the old man craved to be sent anywhere only where he came from.
The story goes that he was settled in the "eye" of the big bridge at Newry Road, Dundalk.
(P.S. Some members of this family were afterwards converted The name is now spelled "Atkinson".