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School: Creach na mBearna

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Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
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Tomás Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 060

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    henchmen. The tears and entreaties of the young maidin were of no avail. She was compelled to go through with the marriage. The groom in many of those cases was a man whom no girl would marry.
    This barbarous custom was condemned by all the people I heard relating the degrading and shocking custom. In cases when the abduction of the girl was known in time a big party of her friends pursued the abductors and after a big fight succeeded in taking her back home.
    The "Run away" marriage was of much later date than the "Force away which I am glad to say was not at all general.
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    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
    Leo Layden
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Arigna, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Christie
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    60
    Address
    Arigna, Co. Roscommon