School: Teach Chaoin (C.) (roll number 6681)
- Location:
- Teach Chaoin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Áinlighe
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 106
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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
- Weddings in Olden TimesThere is a great difference between weddings now and sixty or seventy years ago. At that time the marriage ceremony took place in the house.
In later years they thought it was more holy to go to the church to be married.
First of all the 'match' was made. From the Twelfth Day to Shrove Tuesday was the time for matchmaking, they got very small fortunes, they used to get only about fifteen pounds and a feathered bed and a box made by the carpenter and painted red, and in it they would have blankets, and sheets and towels and in addition to that they got a calf or a few sheep.
The day of the wedding there would be great rejoicing and excitement in the village, and all the women of the village would be cooking at the man's house.
Going to the Church the pair to be married took the "short" road, and when they were passing people threw old shoes or clogs after them and sometimes old shoes were tied to the cars so that the pair would have good(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Prendergast
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Pat Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Droim Sionnach, Co. Mhaigh Eo
