School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- (continued from previous page)the amount of her fortune and the date of the wedding. If, they did not follow her she had to remain there till the wedding.
On the wedding day, when the bride's flitting was being moved to her new home, the load or trunk had to be covered with a red quilt or cloth and a married woman had to go along with it for luck. Otherwise there was a belief that the first child would be a daughter and this was considered unlucky which of course was utter nonsense as daughters are not unlucky.
There is a story told of a Michael Connor of Drumscridden who persuaded a girl from Toher to run away with him on the way repented of his rashness. When he came as far as Mr. Charles McClean's in Duffcastle he stumbled and fell down a ditch and pretended he broke his leg. The girl was in an awful state so he told her(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Mc Clelland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiffagh, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Mr J. Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Duffcastle, Co. an Chabháin
