School: Gráinseach, Cill Mocheallóg (roll number 9970)
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Loínsigh
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- (continued from previous page)are supposed to be lucky times to get married.3
Long ago a professional match-maker used to go around the locality making matches. He used be paid by both the man and woman.
~Mrs. Willie Casey, Farmer
Holy Cross, Kilmallock.4
Shrove is the luckiest time to get married and Tuesday is the luckiest day in Shrove.5
June and September are also lucky times to get married.6
Friday and Monday are unlucky days to get married.
James Harty - Road Ganger
Grange, Kilmallock.7
On the morning of the wedding the bridegroom and his friends usually went to the bride's house and from that to the church where they were married.
A number of local people went to the Church also to see the cermony. Poor people often went to the Church in hope of getting some of the silver which the bridegroom threw up in the(continues on next page)
