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School: Loughkeeren

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Knockatemple, Co. Mayo
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0120, Page 82

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    Local Marriage Customs.
    Whispering Sunday
    Shrove Tuesday is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday or the end of the Seraft and it the last day for lucky marriages in the year. On that night the old custom in Ireland was to make "slims" or pancakes and to put a ring, a rag, and a bit of a stick in them. The rag for a future nun. The ring to get married in the time to come and the stick to be an old maid. Everyone liked to get the ring. It is called Pancake Night. Meat formed part of the feast also.
    Teresa Hyland
    Loughkeeran
    Ballyvary
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Hyland
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Loughkeeraun Well, Co. Mayo