School: Cathair Loisgreáin (C)
- Location:
- Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0022, Page 0563
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- (continued from previous page)The people used have an odd number of horses at a wedding.
Long ago when a girl was going to get married someone would throw a pair of shoes after her going out the door.
When a bride was getting married, her parents used to stick a large needle in her clothes for luck.
It was the custom long ago for the friends of the married couple to be close behind them after the marriage, and they tried to push the bride out first, as they thought that the last out the door would be sure to die.They used to say that it was not lucky if a weasel or a magpie crossed before the married couple.
They do not want the bride to go home for a month. At the end of the month they go home, for what they call the month's visit.
Another pisreóg they had was, the mother could not go to the daughter's wedding.
- Collector
- Mary J. Mc Dermott
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Rita Roche
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Pat Mc Dermott
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Killamanagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Beagh More, Co. Galway
