School: Lemanaghan, Ballycumber

Location:
Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Máire Galvin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 159

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  1. People mostly married from Advent to Lent. May is supposed to a unlucky month for marriage and Saturday is to be an unlucky day. People mostly got married on a Wednesday because it is the luckiest day of the week.
    In olden times marriages used to take place in the houses at a station because the people in this district were far away from the church.
    When people were getting married most people hold a wedding and people who are invited to the wedding give presents to the girl married of money or goods.
    The day before Ash Wednesday is called Shrove Tuesday and people often make and put a ring in them and whoever gets the ring is to be married first.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Dhálaigh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derrynagun, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Seán Ó Dálaigh
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrynagun, Co. Offaly