School: An Clochar (roll number 14705)
- Location:
- Kilbarron, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mother Philomena
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 254](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_1028%2FCBES_1028_254.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 254
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: An Clochar
- XML Page 254
- XML “Local Marriage Customs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The most likely time that marriages take place in my locality is before lent or on Shrove Tuesday. In olden times the marriages took place in the evening or at night in the home for the bride’s parents.
The old people were very superstitious in regard to the day on which the wedding takes place. The following is a well-known local rhyme which denotes the lucky and unlucky days—
“Monday for wealth
Tuesday for health
Wednesday is the best day of all;
Thursday for crosses
Friday for losses
Saturday has no luck at all:
Matches are generally made by parents for both bride and bridegroom.
When they are selected, the parents of the bride give a dowry to the future husband. Sometimes goods or stock are given with the money.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maureen Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal