School: Drumandoora N.S. (roll number 12123)
- Location:
- Drumandoora, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Liam Mac Aodhaire Liam Airley
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26th January 1937
Folklore.
On Marriages.
Shrove is the time for contracting marriages.Shrove begins after Christmas and ends on Ash Wednesday.When a few aged men would be sitting around the fire in the Shrove nights.They would draw down a match about some young boy and girl .When they would have all finished up they would brig the boy to the girls house and settle on the fortune.They would kill a few geese and have a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lannaght, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lannaght, Co. Clare