School: Coillte Críotáin
- Location:
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhgáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 278
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen 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)means that the wives do not go home with their husbands immediately. Long ago the guests attending the wedding used to ride home on horseback and their wives with them.
- here are some old sayings about marriage:- If you get married in black you will wish yourself back. If you get married in blue you will always be true.
Locally most marriages take place from the sixth of January to Shrove Tuesday.
- Collector
- Thomas Tivenan
- Gender
- Male
