School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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- (continued from previous page)May is an unlucky month to get married in.
The farmers give a fortune (of money) to their daughters when they are getting married.
Matches are not made in this parish and marriages are not held in the house. - In this district a custom for people to get married the Sunday before Ash Wednesday called Sweeping Sunday because on that day the boy used to "sweep" the girl away and leave her in some friend's house till they were married.
Dowries are given, sometimes money or sometimes cattle.- Collector
- Detta Campbell
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Campbell
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathdrumin, Co. Louth