School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)
- Location:
- Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Ambrose Madders
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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
- (continued from previous page)Wednesday the best day of all
Thursday for losses
Friday for crosses
Saturday no day at all
Most of the people in my district get married on a Wednesday because it is said that it is the luckiest. The two people getting married get money. The father of the bride gives the bride money and this is called her fortune. On the day of the wedding the bride and the husband go on their honeymoon to Dublin or Mt Melleray or some other place.
When they come back they have an all night dance. They go on their honeymoon in a motor-car and ribbons streaming from the motor-car and a shoe tied behind.
Told by John Keane age 58 Ross Kilmeaden to - The Holy Family
Michael Keane Ross Kilmeaden Co. Waterford. One day two men were setting corn and while they were setting Mary St Joseph and Our Lord passed that way. They were hunted by the soldiers and they were making their way to the land of Egypt. When they were passing they saw two men setting corn and they asked a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- John Keane
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford