School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 085
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- (continued from previous page)both parties were satisfied they would fix a day for getting married.
When the young man used to be leaving his father's house old shoes or rotten eggs used to be thrown after him for luck, and when they were married rice and sods used to be thrown after them.
All the relatives and the neighbours used to be invited to the wedding party where they used to have feasting, singing, and dancing until morning.
A very ancient custom was that the bride and bridegroom were fed on honey for twelve days, and from that custom the word "honey-moon" was derived.
The fortune people used to get long ago was a milch cow and a breeding sow. The bride should carry her own bed, a tick of feathers, from her father's house with her to her own house.
- Collector
- Hannah Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr P. Hayes
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
