School: Clinoony (roll number 15509)
- Location:
- Clonoony, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Uilis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 088
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- After Lent and before Advent marriages mostly occur. If a person marries in May, it is unlucky. If a person marries on Wednesday, it is the best day of all.
Matches are made in our district. Money, stock and goods are given.
If a person loses the wedding ring, it is unlucky. A wedding feast is held. Straw boys visit houses, dressed in straw with straw-hats on them, and straw tied round them. They sing songs and dance, and play fiddles, and flutes. They raced home from the marriage on horse-back long ago, and who ever was at the brides house first, got a bottle of whiskey.- Collector
- Olive Bell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumsloe, Co. Monaghan