School: Lanesboro (roll number 13320)
- Location:
- Lanesborough, Co. Longford
- Teacher: E. Ó Reachtagáin
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- (continued from previous page)the bride to go back to her mothers for a month after the marriage. The groom would go to the brides parents and if they had not enough money he would take cattle or pigs for a fortune.
- There were a lot of strange Marriage Customs in Ireland long ago. When a man wanted to marry a girl in olden times he would gather a whole of friends and horses and go to the house and they would take her away unknown. Later if a man wanted to marry a girl he gave the job of making the arrangements in the hands of a matchmaker. The matchmaker generally got paid(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnacor, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Miss Mary Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnacor, Co. Longford