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School: Clinoony (roll number 15509)

Location:
Clonoony, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Uilis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 088

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  1. Local Marriage Customs

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    After Lent and before Advent marriages mostly occur. If a person marries in May, it is unlucky. If a person marries on Wednesday, it is the best day of all.
    Matches are made in our district. Money, stock and goods are given.
    If a person loses the wedding ring, it is unlucky. A wedding feast is held. Straw boys visit houses, dressed in straw with straw-hats on them, and straw tied round them. They sing songs and dance, and play fiddles, and flutes. They raced home from the marriage on horse-back long ago, and who ever was at the brides house first, got a bottle of whiskey.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Olive Bell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumsloe, Co. Monaghan