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School: Leacht na mBard (Latnamard) (roll number 16769)

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Latnamard, Co. Monaghan
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Máire Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 375

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    Every protestant used to get married on Wednesday or Thursday. I heard a few men talking & one of them said "There's a wedding to-day."It must be a Protestant wedding" said the other because no Catholic gets married on a Wednesday or a Thursday. There was a woman called Mrs. Coyle of Drumshannon, Newbliss, who was married to some stranger & they were always fighting. One day she went to the Bishop & asked him could she separate from him. He said he would see in a few minutes. He got a tub & threw sweet-milk in first & then water & he mixed it up, & then he said "if the milk goes to one side & the water to the other you can separate but if it stays mixed you cannot. So the milk went one side & the water to the other.
    It was an old saying that if you got married in May you would never
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Patrick Clerkin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    64
    Address
    Genagh, Co. Monaghan