School: Ring, Dalahasey (roll number 9111)

Location:
Ring Commons, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
M. Ní Reachtaire

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Local Wedding Customs

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0783, Page 15

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In every country of the globe we hear of special customs at marriages and funerals. And indeed we might safely say that every district and locality in Irland has its own peculiar funeral customs.

To day we shall summrise the chief wedding customs in our locality. Marriage's take place around shrove and at the month of June. And the people are very superstitious on day on which people get married and they say Wednesday is a lucky day to get married and Saturday is an unlucky day to get married.
And they also say:-
"Monday for health
Tuesday for wealth
Wednesday the best day of all
Thursday for lossess
Friday for crossess
Saturday no day at all.

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Collector
Joseph Casey
Gender
male
Age
13
Address
Dermotstown, Co. Dublin
Language
English