School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)
- Location:
- The Rower, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Cuirrín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 070
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- (continued from previous page)used to go on horses to where they would be married. The wives used to sit on the horses with the husbands. John Grace of Ballavarra was married in Glenmore. Those, who attended the wedding, went on horses through the fields because there were drifts of snow on the roads. Glenmore is about ten Irish miles from Ballavarra.
- In our parish the principal time for marriages to take place is during Shrove and during the summer months. On Shrove Tuesday it is a to makes pancakes. It is a great custom to give fortunes to the boy and girl who are getting married. It is an other custom to give all sorts of presents to those who are getting married.
On the wedding night straw-boys(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Mahony
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Mahony
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Coolrainy, Co. Kilkenny
