School: Ramelton
- Location:
- Ráth Mealtain, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Seán Ó Domhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)town and pent the day singing, dancing, drinking, and amusing themselves.
Then they came home at night. As the bride came to the door someone threw a bunog of oat bread at her and broke it in pieces. Then the company gathered up all the pieces. (Then the company gathered up all the) Anyone who got a piece put it under her pillow to dream on as it was meant for the bride's cake.
Then they had supper consisting of potatoes, soup, and meat. They usually killed a sheep and some of the neighbours sent in fowl.
Then they kept on dancing until the morning. Then all went home. The bride was supposed not to go to her husband's house for a month.
All who attended the wedding went with the new married pair to Mass the following Sunday.
- Collector
- Kathleen Greer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glen Lower, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Andrew Greer
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glen Lower, Co. Dhún na nGall
