School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 311
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- (continued from previous page)shoulder with the stick. She immediately dances with them.
Sometimes they drink porter
- Long ago the people used to be married in their own homes. In Shrove the people used to be married. It is unlucky to marry on the sixth day from the starting of Shrove.
An old proverb all the old people have is that whatever is bound in August is loosened in Spring. When the bride used to be getting married long ago it was a custom to have something old, something new, something borrowed something blue.
The father of the girl(continues on next page) - Collector
- Thomas O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leeds, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael Mc Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Kilcorcoran, Co. Clare
