School: Carlingford (3.) (roll number 11666)
- Location:
- Cairlinn, Co. Lú
- Teacher: D. Armstrong
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0657, Page 157
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- Marriages most frequently take place in this locality before Lent, after Easter, and in the month of June. May is considered to be an unlucky month for marriage. The following is an old rhyme which tells the lucky and unlucky days for marriage:-
Monday is for wealth
Tuesday is for health
Wednesday best day of all
Thursday for losses
Friday for crosses
Saturday no day atall
Boys and girls are often sent on Shrove Tuesday to borrow a pancake sieve from a neighbour. As there is no such such thing as a pancake sieve it ends up that they get their faces blackened in that house. Sometimes to carry the joke further they are told it is lent and so they go from house to house looking for the "pancake sieve" which never existed. Land and stock are often given as a dowry instead of money. It is the custom in many places in this district for the bride to throw her garter over her(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Violet Armstrong
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Nootka Lodge, Co. Lú
