School: Gleann Iascaigh (roll number 16363)
- Location:
- Bellafarney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)her head for good luck. If she succeeded to get to bed before her husband, she would be mistress of her affairs.
Horses they brought to carry them. The bridegroom took his wife behind him on a pillion. The other men took the ladies behind them also.
Sometimes a pair got married at the station houses. A pound the priest charged. “Seraft” (shrove) from twelfth day to Ash Wednesday was considered the right time for marriage. The Sunday after Ash Wednesday is called “Puss Sunday because the marriageable girls who got no man to ask them in marriage had pusses on the. It is about seventy years ago since marriages took place in the station houses.
These customs are not carried on now. Shrove Tuesday night is pancake night. Boxty is made in many houses on that night as of old
- Collector
- Henry Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Michael Tiernan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Gleneasky, Co. Sligo
