1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Duxtown, Rathkeale

School: Duxtown, Rathkeale (roll number 15943)

Location:
Duckstown, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Agnes O' Grady
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0500, Page 422

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0500, Page 422

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Duxtown, Rathkeale
  2. XML Page 422
  3. XML “Local Marriage Customs”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Local Marriage Customs

    Share Share Post
    It is generally during Shrove marriages take place locally, but the most favoured day is Shrove Tuesday. People get married at any time during the year but I never heard of any marriage in May or the Harvest of the year. Monday and Friday marriages, are very unusual, also Sunday.
    In this district matches are made, and money is given as dowry up to this day. Stock or goods are often given as presents with the dowry. Some boy's friend come to the girl's house and talk to the people and if the people consent the girl and boy meet generally at the girl's home if they like each other, they draw down about the dowry, when the dowry is fixed the families
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Eibhlís Ní Grádaig
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyea, Co. Limerick