School: Elphin (B.) (roll number 1753)
- Location:
- Elphin, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Cianáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0250, Page 351
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- (continued from previous page)Church on horseback or on jaunting cars.
They carried with them lighted sods of turf on the tops of forks, to welcome the newly married pair. When the marriage was over the men on horseback had a race home to the bride's house.
They went across fields and took short cuts trying to get home first. The first horseman home got a bottle of whiskey.
When the married pair came home, they were pushed in on the door together, because it was said that the person first in on the door would die first. When they went into the house the mother-in-law put an oaten cake on her head and broke it across her head first to bring luck to the newly married pair and also to give up her authority in the house to her daughter-in-law.
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