School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Thurles (roll number 4068)
- Location:
- Thurles, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Aodán
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- (continued from previous page)a wedding party to give a present to the happy couple.
- Mostly on Shrove-tide marriages take place. The people say it is unlucky to get married in the month of May, and in Lent. Yes matches a re made in our district. Both parties meet in a house and the fathers and the mothers ask their children are they willing to marry. Then if they are the father and mother tell how much of a fortune they have to give their children.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Leahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cabragh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cabragh, Co. Tipperary