School: Carrigeencor (roll number 10826)
- Location:
- Carrigeencor, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs Annie Gillmor
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- (continued from previous page)and straw boys as before.
Then there were run-a-ways. If a girl was keeping company with a man, and wanted to marry him, but her parents were opposed to her then she ran away. This meant that her suitor brought her to a friend's house generally a relative, and left her there. She stayed in that house until her parents came, and brought her home, and shortly after she got married.
"Marry on Monday, marry for health
Marry on Tuesday, marry for wealth
Marry on Wednesday, best day of all
Marry on Thursday, marry for crosses
Marry on Friday, marry for losses
Marry on Saturday, no day at all"
There is a saying about what the bride has to wear "Something borrowed, something blue, something old, and something new"
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on"
Happy is the corpse that the rain rains on"
- Collector
- Mrs Annie Gillmor
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
