School: Collon (roll number 14579)
- Location:
- Collon, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhathúna
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“Long ago breadcrumbs, and rice was thrown at the married couple when they left the church.”
(continued from previous page)Another custom was strawboys, sometimes they wore straw and blackened their faces, they came to the grooms, house at night, they danced and sang if well treated but if not the made things most uncomfortable for the wedding party inside.
The first three days one considered the best in the week according to this little rhyme:- Monday for health.
Tuesday for wealth.
Wednesday the best day of all.
Thursday for losses.
Friday for crosses.
Saturday the worst day of all.(no title)
“It was a custom when the bride and bridegroom came to the gate of their home to hand him a five naggin bottle of whiskey from which he drank a drop, then handing it to the bride, after that the bridegroom, taking the bottle threw it against the peer of th”
It was custom when the bride and bridegroom came to the gate of their home to hand him a five naggin bottle of whiskey from which he drank(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggy O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drogheda Road, Co. Louth