School: Baile an tSratha (roll number 17014)
- Location:
- Baile an tSratha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Séarlus S. Ua Baoighill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1031, Page 221
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- Before Lent and in the Summer are the principal times for marriages in this parish. Many old customs are carried out during these times. It is the custom for a bride to wear “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.” Another custom is for a bride to wear a green garter. Monday and Saturday are said to be very unlucky days to get married on. May is said to be a very unlucky month. “Married in May you will surely rue the day.” It is considered unlucky for a br persons wedding day to be wet. It is considered unlucky for the bride if it is a wet morning and it is considered unlucky for the bridegroom if it is a wet evening.A bride should not see her husband on her wedding morning until she sees him in the Church. A bride should leave by the front door of her house.
- Collector
- Mary Langan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an tSratha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Mrs C Langan
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Baile an tSratha, Co. Dhún na nGall
