School: Kill
- Location:
- Kill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Brigid Timlin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 084
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- When a man wanted a wife long ago he used to send a friend with a bottle of whiskey to the house of his intended partner, and he would produce the bottle, and send the whiskey out copiously to the intended father in law, and mother-in-law.
When he had the old couple half drunk he tried to get as much of a dowry as possible. When the marriage took place that night straw men came round and skulked for whiskey.
- Collector
- Kathleen Smith
- Gender
- Female
