School: Lanesboro (roll number 13320)
- Location:
- Lanesborough, Co. Longford
- Teacher: E. Ó Reachtagáin
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- (continued from previous page)her parents house for a month. So after the wedding all the people would be giving them presents and parties and often those parties would last for three months.
I forgot to mention that the night of the wedding a lot of men would come dressed up and they would be called strawboys. - In olden times people used to get married different than now. They used to go in the evening to get married and they used to walk to the Chapel. when they would be married they would leave the Chapel and the boss would leave the Chapel first.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Gibbons
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonfore, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr John Gibbons
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Cloonfore, Co. Longford