School: Sruthar (C.)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Éanacháin
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- (continued from previous page)They were very careful about the bride’s clothes, and about the colours she wore. She should wear: “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.” When the couple were leaving the house, going to the church to be married, an old woman used to take a handful of oatmeal, or an old shoe, and throw it after them for luck. When they were married, the man was sure to kiss his wife at the altar rails. (From Mother, Mrs. Burke. 40 yrs.)(Máirin De búrca.) Conscurtín
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- Collector
- Nóra Ní Mhurchadha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cahernabrock, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Murphy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Cahernabrock, Co. Mayo