School: Cúirt an tSéafraidh
- Location:
- Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Síthigh
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- Marriage 7-4-'38Long ago people would not get married only at special times. They would only get married in Shrove, they would not get married in May or August under any circumstances, for they said these were unlucky months, and they thought, Monday, Wednesday and Friday were unlucky days.The matches were made at the fairs in a public house, and sometimes the man did not see his intended wife until the morning of the wedding. At that time the women wore hood cloaks and it often happened that a man would be fooled by the cloak, it happened sometimes that a man got married to a wrong woman, for he would not see her face until after the wedding.The fortunes of long ago were the same as they are to-day. In those days when there were no motors, the people went to weddings on horseback. The married couple on the first horse, the best man and bridesmaid on the next, and all the guests on horseback after them and sometimes in carts, traps and sidecars.
Jeremiah Coakley (Courtmacsherry)Tina Tobin (storyteller) Ramsey Hill, Courtmacsherry.
- Collector
- Jeremiah Coakley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Tim Tobin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meelmane, Co. Cork
