School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)
- Location:
- Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Staráid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1081, Page 238
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- (continued from previous page)rags on them and they had their faces blackened with soot.
The people nearly always let them in and gave them money. If they would not let them in they would do damage to stacks of corn or houses.
The people who were at the wedding used to race against each other when they were coming home. The wives used to sit behind their husbands on the horses.
- Marriages take place at all times of the year. There is an old rhyme about the days thought lucky and unlucky for marriages and it is:
Marry on Monday marry for wealth,
Marry on Tuesday marry for health,
Marry on Wednesday the best day of all.
Marry on Thursday marry for crosses,(continues on next page) - Collector
- Molly Mc Galligly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Legnahoory, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr James Mc Galligly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Legnahoory, Co. Donegal
