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1. Local Marriage Customs

   

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   Marriages frequently take place during Shrove because people don't generally get married during Lent. The months of May and January, and the days Friday, Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be unlucky for marriages
   On Shrove Tuesday people generally have a feast of pancakes, and they call that day "Pancake Tuesday".
   Some years ago matches were made, that is a man brought a boy and girl together, and the boy brought a bottle of whiskey to the girls house, and treated her parents, and if the girl agreed to get married to him, they did so soon after. Then the girls parents gave her money as dowry - that is called a "fortune". Sometimes stock or goods were given as dowry.
   After the marriage had taken place the people waited outside the church, and when the bride and groom came out they threw rice or confetti at them. Then all the neighbors tackled their traps or side cars and they get a few fiddlers, and then they drove to the nearest town and were cheered by the people there.
   If the bride and groom were well to do, and they did not give a spree the neighbors knocked the bottom out of bottles and "horned" them; they did this for a couple of weeks in order to give as much annoyance as possible to the newly-married couple.
   Over at Bailieborough in the Co. Cavan there is an old custom still carried on. When a couple get

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. marriage (~4,283)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Olive Mc Cullagh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drummond, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   John Mc Cullagh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drummond, Co. Monaghan