School: Baile an Chaisleáin, PortLáirge (roll number 15841)
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Gobnait Ní Dhuinnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0651, Page 79
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- Many marriages take place in this district on Shrove Tuesday. The old people believed that anyone who got married on Shrove Tuesday would be very lucky and would have a large family. They also got married then because lent was approaching Saturday and was supposed to be a very unlucky day to get married. They also had a belief that the month of May was a very unlucky month in which to contract marriage.
There was no marriage matches made in this district Stock and beautiful jewels were given to the bride as a dowry. Some-times money was presented to the bride as a dowry.
My grand-father remembers marriages taking place in the house. They took place about sixty years-ago. Many customs were observed on the wedding day. The wedding(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christina Rockett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumcannon, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mr James Rockett
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumcannon, Co. Waterford
