School: Lenamore, Rathowen (roll number 5115)
- Location:
- Lenamore, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Brian Mac Tomas
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- (continued from previous page)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(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary E. O' Gara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killeen, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Martin O' Gara
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killeen, Co. Longford