School: Drumraney (roll number 13571)
- Location:
- Drumraney, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: Ml Mc Garry Alice Mc Garry
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- (continued from previous page)tained until two or three o'clock in the morning. Then the people took short cuts across the fields to see who would be home first.
- There is no special period of the year in which marriages take place locally. There are very few marriages in this locality and there is no particular time in which they take place.Some people say Mondays and Tuesdays are unlucky days on which to get married and also the months of May and June. Long ago the people would not get married on these months or on these days but now-a-days there is no remarks as to what days marriages take place.In some cases the bride gets a dowry. While in other cases cattle or sheep or even land is given instead. Now-a-days when there is a marriage the bride goes in her own car to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Allen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bryanmore Upper, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Allen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 99
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Bryanmore Upper, Co. Westmeath
