School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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- (continued from previous page)houses of the people who were getting married. The bride used to get a horse or a cow for a fortune. The straw-boys were dressed in coloured rags and had a cap of straw on their heads.The bride and groom rode on one horse coming home from the wedding ; and if it was a rich person was getting married they would sow (scatter money on the road and the people gathered the money after them. The groom sowed the money,
- Everyone gets married on a Tuesday or a Thursday for it is the luckiest day. They get married before Lent and(continues on next page)