School: Tigneatha
- Location:
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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- The bride should not go home to her old home for a month even if there were a wake in her old home. She pays the month's visit after a month and then she can go home as often as she likes.
- Collector
- Hubert Gordon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- On Shrove Tuesday they make a pancake and put a ring in it and whoever would get the ring would get married before next Shrove Tuesday. People say if the stool fell when you stood up you wouldn't get married for a year. It is said if you were a bridesmaid twice you would never be a bride. It is unlucky for two out of the same house (in the) to get married in the same year. You would never get married if you were fond of cats. This is an old rhyme about marriage-A man of twenty wants a wife,
And all with him is honey,
A man of forty wants a wife,
And all with him is money,
Eileen Shaughnessy, Tynagh
