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School: Cluain Dá Iomaire (roll number 14801)

Location:
Cloondahamper (Brown), Co. Galway
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0080, Page 283

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    Married in green you will be ashamed to be seen.
    Married in blue your love will remain true.
    Married in red you will wish yourself dead.
    Married in grey you will live far away.
    It is said that a person it to have something old something new something borrowed and something blue. It is customary in this place that a bride is to have two married women that day.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tigreenaun, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Peter Gilligan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Tigreenaun, Co. Galway