School: Breacaire Beag (roll number 14891)
- Location:
- Brackary Beg, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Brádaigh
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- (continued from previous page)always a sergeant and captin to keep control. They wore tall straw hats and shirts.
Long ago the people would like to get married on a sunny day because there was a saying "Happy is the bride that the sun shines on, and flowers will strew her way." It was also a custom for the bride to wear
"Something old, and something new.
"Something borrowed, and something blue.
Something given by another
Luckiest if the gift of lover."- Collector
- Mary Rooney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brackary Beg, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Patrick Rooney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brackary Beg, Co. Leitrim