School: Creach na mBearna
- Location:
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 065
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- (continued from previous page)home. This was called the "Dragging home." When the bride entered her new home it was customary to break a loaf of bread over her head and let the crumbs of the breaking fall upon her. I do not know why was this done but I saw it done.
Note:- It would be a mistake to come to the conclusion that every father who had a marriageable daughter was "well to do" and could give his daughter a dowry of £100 or so. This was not the case. Oftened the same dowry "fortuned" several girls. For instance if John say got £100 dowry with his wife he had to hand it over to his sisters on her marriage. Her husband in turn had to give it as fortune to his sister and so on till it finally came to rest with some man who had no sister to endow(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leo Layden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Airgnigh, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Mrs Christie
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- An Airgnigh, Co. Ros Comáin
