School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)When the bride would be coming in the door, they would break an oaten cake over her head. It was wrong to meet another wedding party or to pass a grave yard. The women used to sit behind the men on horse back.
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- Friday was counted an unlucky day and also a cross day of the year for getting married
- It was an old custom for the mother to give her daughter, the bride, a feather bed after the marriage.