School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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all the neighbours in and have a wedding that night.hey had no such thing as sweet cake or porter but punch.They would go to one of the houses until next day .
The next day all the neighbour would gather together and make a sod house for them and they would live in it.The fortune they would give would be four or five yearlings and sometimes five pounds with it,more would give three or four fields for a year or two.They used have two sponsors and sometimes four.They used have two sponsors and sometimes four.This was how they used to get married long ago.
- Collector
- Julia Corry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Tom Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
