1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Millín, Séipéal na Carraige

School: Millín, Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 16329)

Location:
Milleenduff, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Liam Diolún
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 016

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 016

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Millín, Séipéal na Carraige
  2. XML Page 016
  3. XML “Local Marriage Customs”

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

  1. Local Marriage Customs

    Share Share Post
    The greater number of marriages take places during Shrove. On Shrove Tuesday every marriages takes place. The old people say that the people who get married on Shrove Tuesday never get sick during the following year. They also say when Shrove Tuesday is fine, and the sun is shining that the person who gets married on that day will be happy.
    Long ago the old people made matches for their children. There was no money in the country that time, and the people gave stock and goods as fortunes. Dan Leahy of Knockulcare gave eight in-calf heifers two bags of potatoes and a goose for Christmas, to his daughter when she was getting married.
    The only marriage in this locality that took place in a house was when
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie O Callaghan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Milleenduff, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Denis O Callaghan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Milleenduff, Co. Cork