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School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)

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Gortaveha, Co. Clare
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P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 03_013

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    they would boil pots of meat and potatoes and invite the neighbours and have a wedding that night.They had no sweet cakes or porter but punch.They would get married that night and then stay in another house around them until next day.
    if they had no housse of their own all the neighbours would gather to gether and build a sod house for them to live in.If they people were rich they would give them ten or twenty for a fortune .Then the poorer class used to give yearlings or a meadow for two or three years .They used have two
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cáit Ní Chorra
    Other names
    Cáit Ní Chorra
    Kate Corry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derryfadda, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Thomas Corry
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Derryfadda, Co. Clare