School: Clochar na Toirbhirte
- Location:
- Lismore, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Sr M. Gráinne
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- 1. At a wedding the bridegroom should wear all new clothes.
2. The bride should wear something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.
3. It is unlucky to meet a funeral one's way to a marriage.
4. If the eldest sister of the bride is bridesmaid, she should wear green or she will never marry.
5. When the brice is fully dressed she should not look at herself in a mirrror.
6. When a baby is born a cinder should be put into one of its clothes, so to keep it alive until is baptised.
7. One magpie fotells sorrow, two for three for a wedding, four for a boy, five(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lismore, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Miss O' Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyin Lower, Co. Waterford