School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 263
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- (continued from previous page)the bride's cake was generally a bonic of oat cake. The night of the wedding they used to be dancing and singing and games were often played. The people would all leave at three o'clock and then the married pair would prepare to take a rest. They would always sleep in the smallest room and on a feather bed clothed with down blankets.
Don't marry and you will be sorry.
Marry or no marry and you will be sorry.
Another old saying was:
Something old and something new,
Something borrowed and something blue
Matches are made in my district and in olden time nobody would to matching to a house unless he got a weed strong enough to tie his horse and if he did not he would say the land was no good and he would not marry the girl.
- Collector
- Mary E. Conboy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumard (Jones), Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr J. Mc Garry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Clooncarreen, Co. Leitrim
