School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)
- Location:
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 141
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- (continued from previous page)are very careful not to break any delph on the wedding-day as it would bring bad luck to the bride or bridegroom.
- Marriages were celebrated in a much different manner in the olden times than nowadays. The people were married at the very young age of seventeen, and the women were dressed in a beautiful, dear, red or blue hooded cloak descending to the knees and tightened with a belt. The men wore suits as they wear now. Potatoes, plenty of meat and whiskey were the order of the day, while the house was packed until the break of day.
The newly married people never went on a honey-moon but celebrated the week athome, or going on invitations to their neighbours' houses.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Margaret Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Florence Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardagh, Co. Cork
