School: Duxtown, Rathkeale (roll number 15943)
- Location:
- Duckstown, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Agnes O' Grady
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- (continued from previous page)settle an appointed day to draw the "writings". When the "writings" are drawn the boy and girl go to Limerick to purchase the ring, and the wedding garments. On the appointed day the "weddingers" drive to the church and get married, the bride has a bridesmaid and the groom has a bridegroom generally the boy and girl are relations of the married pair. Then the married couple and some of their friends drive to the hotel where arrangements for their breakfast, have been made the day they bought the ring. Some people prefer to have breakfast in the girl's home and then they go in their honeymoon to some other country for a week or fortnight.
- Collector
- Eibhlís Ní Grádaig
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyea, Co. Limerick