1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Cilltighearnáin/Kiltiernan

School: Cilltighearnáin/Kiltiernan (roll number 11812)

Location:
Kiltiernan West, Co. Galway
Teacher:
S. Ó Beirn
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033C, Page 08_019

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033C, Page 08_019

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cilltighearnáin/Kiltiernan
  2. XML Page 08_019
  3. XML “Superstitions about Marriage”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Superstitions about Marriage

    Share Share Post
    It is supposed that June is a lucky month to get married because it is "the month of roses".
    On the wedding day the bride must wear something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
    When the bride returns home an old woman is inside the door and she throws a loaf after her so that she would never be short of bread. The bride is forbidden to return to her home until she was married a month.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maighréad Ní Fhathaigh
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Michael Lane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Lavallyconor, Co. Galway