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School: Tulach Ruacháin

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Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál de Bhaldraithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 628

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    As a rule the people get married the week before Lent. They would not get married the thirteenth of any month. It is a general custom found this district on Shrove Tuesday sometimes called "salting" Tuesday in the Towns to throw salt at the different girls who pass by as a token to keep them from getting stale during Lent. Long ago the people gave cattle to the boy or the girl as a fortune and also a feather bed and home made sheets
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Murphy
    Gender
    Female