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School: Réidh Ghlas (roll number 14853)

Location:
Knockardtry, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Pártholán Ó Dálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 372

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    The people who would be getting married would fix the match they would fix the fortune and they would go to see the land. The night before the marriage the woman would kill a gander. The man would go to the woman's house and they would eat the gander. The morning they would get married someone would fire an old shoe after them for good luck. They used have no motor cars long ago but drags to go the church.
    There would be a dance at the man's house and the straw boys would would come and dance and play. It is very unlucky to meet a funeral or a red haired woman going to a marriage. They would go on the honeymoon the next week.
    Monday for health
    Tuesday for wealth
    Wednesday the best day of all
    Thursday for crosses
    Friday for losses
    Saturday is no day at all
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Hickey
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Joan Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    80
    Address
    Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick