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School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)

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Oughterard, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 205

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  2. Pósaithe

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    The people alway get married in Shrove. The old people say that the young girls and boys that did not get married before Lent have a pus on them on the first Sunday after Ash Wednesday, it is called Pus Sunday.
    Some of the old people say that May is not a lucky month and that Saturday is not a lucky day for marriages.
    The old marriages were all matchmaking long ago some of them used to get money and some of them stock.
    It is said that it is not lucky for
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