School: Richmond (roll number 14400)
- Location:
- Richmond, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Giollarnáth
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Richmond
- XML Page 205
- XML “Local Marriage Customs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Long ago when the people used to be getting married the girl used to wear old clothes. When they used to be getting married they used to have a quart of porter in the bride’s house.When they used to be going to get married they used to get old shoes and fire them after the two who were going to get married. They throw the tongs after them. They also tie flowers to the car that the two are on.When(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Herbert
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinlabaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Joseph Herbert
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 40
- Address
- Ballinlabaun, Co. Mayo