School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1076, Page 360
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- (continued from previous page)them to keep the fairies away. They would play the fiddle on their way home and this is the tune they played
Over the water
Over the Lee
Make haste to the wedding
Of Sean Buidhe.
The bride's cake they used to have was a cake of oat bread and they would put it into a bag and the minute the bride would enter the house they would break the oat cake on her head. When they would be married the people would throw a paper of rice on them and the dowry they used to give them long ago was a feather bed and blankets and pillows. And if the had sufficient money at that time they would give them about fifty pounds. Long ago the bride used to wear for luck
Something Old
Something New
Something borrowed
Something blue.
The bride used to wear very long dresses and whale bone whoops which the called busels from the tail of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- F. Mac Nulty
- Gender
- Unknown
- Informant
- Mrs Mac Nulty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Knocknafaugher, Co. Donegal
