School: Collon (roll number 14579)
- Location:
- Collon, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0676, Page 173
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“A time at which marriages most frequently take place is during Shrove.”
(continued from previous page)The lucky month is said to be June, and the lucky day - Wednesday and then a rhyme that the old believed was that the bride should have:-"Something old, something new.
Something borrowed, and something blue"Marriages are remembered to have taken place in houses, and sometimes the ceremony was performed in the evenings.
It is still counted unlucky for the bride or bridegroom, to meet on the morning of their marriage until they do so in church.
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“The Local marriage custom was that when the married couple would be in the chapel there would be a bunch of old boots or cans tied on to the axle of the side-car that they were going for a drive on, and when they would be coming home in the evening, about”
The local marriage custom was that when, the married couple would be in the chapel there would be a bunch of old boots(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Birch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leabby Cross, Co. Louth