School: Ceann Dáimh (roll number 16173)
- Location:
- Kinaff, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Mac Cathmhaoil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0122, Page 60
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- (continued from previous page)Mrs. John Brennan Kinaffe supplied me with the following about Marriage Customs.
Before leaving the house on the wedding day a grain of salt and a quenched coal were put into the bridegrooms pocket to bring him back, and just as the couple were leaving the house a bottle or an old shoe was fired after them. If the day was fine the union would be a happy one, if raining an unhappy one. Strange as it seems it is supposed that if an educated person ties a knot on a handkerchief at a particular word in the ceremony the couple will not be blessed with a family.
The older people(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kinaff, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs John Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kinaff, Co. Mayo
