School: Kilmagner, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 11337)

Location:
Kilmagner, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Scannail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0379, Page 19

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0379, Page 19

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  1. During Shrove time people get married, as a rule that period of the year is from little Christmas to Lent. If the old bachelors are not married during that period some clever[?] boys went the house. Sometimes they carried lime and to show that they were good artists they were, they made a figure of a man on the door or wall. At other times they brought the man out of his house and warned him that if he weren't married in
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English