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School: Lenamore, Rathowen (roll number 5115)

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Lenamore, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Brian Mac Tomas
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0769, Page 303

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    home for breakfast, they remain there for some; they have singing, dancing, and music. Then they leave on the honeymoon. If there is a wedding kept all night, bands of men called "band-beggars" visit the house where the wedding is held, they come disguised and dance with the newly married couple and wish them luck.
    After the honeymoon is spent they return to the bridegrooms house and settle down there for the rest of their lives. The bride generally brings money into the house where she goes if she has it her husband gets the
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary E. O' Gara
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killeen, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Martin O' Gara
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killeen, Co. Longford