School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Achadh an Iúir, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: E. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)with the ring on it he will be married before that time next year. This is done until they are all finished.
It is a custom around this area to get a spool of thread and tie it to the knocker of a door and then go and hide and keep pulling the knocker and the people of the house think it is a fairy.
At the tea a brack is eaten, in the brack there is a ring and it is believed that whoever gets the ring will be married soon.
If a girl wishes to see the man who she is destined to marry she must lay out a table with tea things for two persons. If the man is in America or Australia he will walk in at the hour of midnight.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leo Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rafanaigh, Co. an Chabháin
