School: Creach na mBearna
- Location:
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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Local Marriage Customs
This is the district of Arigna, a pocket between the mountains of Braulieve and Munterkenny in the extreme northern end of Co Roscommon Parish of Kilronan and Barony of Boyle.
Forty years ago I heard the old people talk about "Force-away" marriages that they remembered. They even named men living in the locality at the time, who got their wives in this shocking manner. The "Force-away" marriage was so called because the girl or bride-to be was captured and carried off by force from her parents home, to the home of the bride to be. The abduction was done by the groom and a party of his(continues on next page)- Collector
- Leo Layden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Arigna, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Christie
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Arigna, Co. Roscommon