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School: Domhnach Maighin (roll number 15142)

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Donaghmoyne, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Pádraic Ua Muirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0931, Page 070

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    8) When you get a piece of brides cake to sleep on it that night to see whom you will dream of. If it is a boy you will get married to him.
    9) The day you are getting married it is a custom to go to the church one road and to come home another road.
    10) When a girl is getting married she must have "something old, something new, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.
    11) If the car breaks down on the way it is a sign of trouble.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bernadette Cunningham
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Aghavilla, Co. Monaghan