School: Milford (roll number 10586)
- Location:
- Millford, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: James Mc Veigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1087, Page 057
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- Marriages are mostly held in our locality before Lent.
In May it is supposed to be unlucky to marry and Saturday is supposed to be a very unlucky day.
Sometimes matches were made in our district but not very often.
Money is mostly given as dowry to boys and girls when they are getting married.
When the son of a farmer gets married the father sometimes gives him a piece of land with a house on it as a wedding present.
The only marriages that are celebrated nowadays in the home of one of the parties are by "Special licence" costing about £10 and in some cases £25.
On a wedding day some superstitions are:- that it is unlucky for the boy to see the girl on their wedding morning before they arrive at the church; that the girl is not to wear her engagement ring at the wedding because this would be unlucky; and that she is also supposed on her wedding day to wear "something old, and something new, something borrowed and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita Glenn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Millford, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Frank Glenn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Millford, Co. Donegal
