School: Ráth Dubh, An Bhlárna (roll number 8393)
- Location:
- Rathduff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: D. Ó Súilleabháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0388, Page 235
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ráth Dubh, An Bhlárna
- XML Page 235
- XML “Local Marriages”
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)in houses because all the churches were burned down.
Long ago they used hire coaches for going to the wedding. When the newly married couple were going out of the church people used to throw rice at them. The people used to tie an old shoe on to the coach of the bride and bridegroom. If the shoe stayed on, luck would follow them. If it fell off luck would not follow them. The wedding feast is usually held in the bride's house. During the wedding straw boys come in. They are entertained very well. They sing and dance and they remain a few hours. They tie straw around their necks and legs. They do not tell there names. Long ago wives used to set upon the horses with their husbands.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathduff, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr John Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathduff, Co. Cork
