School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Liatroim Beag, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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- (continued from previous page)would have big bonfires and candles lit on their way home to welcome the bride. The next Sunday after the wedding the bride's friends would come to the bridegroom's home after Mass with the bride and that would be another big feast they called that the "Rising out". In a month after the bride and groom would go to her parent's home and that would be called the month's visit.
- Friday is supposed to be the luckiest day to begin any work or to enter from one house to another. It is also thought that Friday is lucky day to begin to sow a crop. Mondays and Thursdays are days for cures, while "Whit Monday" is a day of accidents. In olden days people used not harness horses on Whit Monday as they thought it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna M. Rabbitte
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Margaret Guerin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- An Choill Bhreac, Co. na Gaillimhe
