School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Ráth Ciaragáin, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0809, Page 066
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- Wednesday is said to be the luckiest day to get married on. There is a rhyme about the clothes of the bride.
Married in blue your love will be true
Married in black you will wish yourself back
Married in white you have chosen all right
Married in green ashamed to be seen
married in yellow ashamed of your fellow
Married n brown you will live in the town
Married in red you wish yourself dead
Married in pink your spirits will sink
Married in gray you will go far away
The breakfast usually takes place in the brides home. Then they go to the man's house and have great amusement.
- Collector
- Elsie Doolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lúghortán Beag, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- In old times when the people used to be married they had no motor cars and they used to go in horses traps, and sometimes they used to walk. The bride and the bridegroom used to meet at the chapel. When they were married they used to go to the bride's house for the breakfast.(continues on next page)
