School: Leitir Bric (roll number 14924)
- Location:
- Letterbrick, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Grannacháin
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- Marriages in this place generally take place from the 6th January to Shrove Tuesday. The man that is getting married asks a man to go to a house and ask a girl. The man goes to the girl's house and they have a great feast all night. Then they settle about the fortune.
The lucky days and unlucky days of the week are:
"Monday for health,
Tuesday for wealth,
Wednesday the worse day of all,
Thursday for losses,
Friday for crosses,
Saturday no luck at all
Sunday the best day of all."
The girl that is getting married wears white clothes. "Any person married in grey is sure to go far away, married in white is sure to be right, married in blue is sure to be true, married in green is(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bridgie Moyles
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs M. Moyles
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreen, Co. Mayo