School: Baile Droichid, Cathair Dún Iascaigh (roll number 10533)
- Location:
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Donnchadh Mac Craith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 017
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- (continued from previous page)always be 15 or 20 minutes before time. Some marriages are made by match-makers who go to the house of a lady who has some money and after some time arrangements are made about how much money and when everything is fixed she sees perhaps for the first time the man she is to marry. So long as he pleases her friends, she must fall in with their wishes. If she happens to be bad looking her father freely gives another hundred pounds to get her settled down.
Some times a lady may own some land and the future husband may also own a little farm so the place are joined together and the lady gets the purse for the rest of their days.
On the morning of the wedding the bride groom with his friends go to the house of the bride for an hour or two before going to the church. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Kearney
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs J. Kearney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 39
- Address
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
