School: Brittas (roll number 12217)
- Location:
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: B. Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 395
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- When the people of this district are getting married their friends tie an old boot to the back of the motor car in which the bride goes to the chapel for good luck.
Another custom is to get married on Wedensday as the people think it is the luckiest day of the week.
Some of the people give a dance and invite all there friends to it instead of going off on a honeymoon.
- Collector
- Séamus Mac Alainn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- Hairy out side tough in the skin too things wagging and one going in.? Answer a pig eating.
When it is open it is shut when it is shut it is open.? Answer a Railway gate.
What is it that you can do and that God cannot do.? Answer sit in your
masters chair.
I have a little house and a mouse would not fit in it and all the men in town could not count all the windows in it.? Answer a temble.
Black and white and red all over?
Answer a News Paper.
