School: Leacht na mBard (Latnamard) (roll number 16769)
- Location:
- Latnamard, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhubhthaigh
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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(continues on next page)- Informant
- Patrick Clerkin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Genagh, Co. Monaghan