School: Louth (C.) (roll number 3252)
- Location:
- Louth, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Chasaide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0665, Page 285
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- (continued from previous page)usually the parish priest. If they can afford it they have a brides cake. The priest blesses it cuts it and hands a piece round to every person seated at table and they hand him and offering not less than 2/6. The married couple send by post boxes of brides cake to their friends and distant neighbours. When a young girls gets a piece of brides cake she puts it under the pillow to dream on it for three successive nights, on one of these nights she dreams of her future husband. Up to one hundred years ago the young bride wore a tight fitted bodice with very wide skirt and hoops on it trailing the ground. As darkness fell the brides fitting as it was called was seen. It was a float or crib cast bearing a chest of drawers which would be full of linen. This would be sent from the young brides home to the young mans. It is still a custom for a bride not to go to her home for a month after the marriage, and on the fourth Sunday she goes to Mass in her own chapel and so on to her parents home for the first time after she marriage. This is called the monthly visit. Then also a bride should wear something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Before the piece of brides cake is sent to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eveline Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Chanonrock, Co. Louth
