School: Attymass B.
- Location:
- Attymass, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Flannghaile
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0127, Page 328
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Attymass B.
- XML Page 328
- XML “Pósaithe”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Pósaithe Long ago marriages were performed in a different manner to that now practised. There were no certain days or no certain times of the year for the marriages.In the morning the two that were to be married would be set out to the Church. The woman would wear a black shawl and the man a tall black hat and a long "casóg" split behind with two buttons in it. An the way the man and woman would take of their shoes until they would go to the Church. The people that were invited to the wedding were called the "Drag" and they went to Church in the morning too. Usually twenty ofd couples were asked and some took side - cars and other coup(les) went on horse - back.When the nearly married couples were coming home one would not go an inch farther out before the other out the Church door for fear one would die sooner than the other.Then there would be a race hor(se)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Margaret Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 89
- Address
- Ballymore, Co. Mayo
