School: Cloone (B.) (roll number 15442)
- Location:
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim
- Teachers: T. Ó Móráin A. Ó Corraidhin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 004
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- (continued from previous page)they get a mug of porter. They sing some songs and
then they go home.
The bride steps a week or so in her own home
before she goes to the house of her husband. The
husband brings a motor car to take her to his house
and this is called the hauling home.
Sometimes there is a race coming from the church
between those on horseback. He who wins the race
will have the first dance with the bride when they
go to the house.
In this part of the country the people have
superstitions regarding the dress worn by the bride
at the marriage ceremony. it has never been known
that any bride wore green on her wedding day
as it is considered very unlucky. The old people
have a rhyme which expresses the dress the bride
should wear on her wedding day.
"Something old and something new
Something borrowed and something blue,"
It is thought very lucky for the bride to be
dressed in blue. A long time ago a man was going
to get married. It was during the days when
stock was given as a dowry. He went to the byre
before he went to the house to have a look at the cow.
This old cow had a lot of wrinkles in her horns and
he said to himself, "this is one that I will get".
- Collector
- Terence Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnarah, Co. Leitrim
