School: Naas (Mercy Convent) (roll number 15040)
- Location:
- Naas, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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- (continued from previous page)Wednesday and Friday are also considered lucky days
People in this locality do not remember marriages having taken place in houses.
Stock is not given as a wedding gift but money and furniture are given as a rule.
It is a custom here for the wedding feast to be held after the marriage in a house or hotel, - after which is the honeymoon. - Wednesday and Friday are also considered lucky days
People in this locality do not remember marriages having taken place in houses
Stock is not given as a wedding gift but money and furniture are given as a rule.
It is a custom here for the wedding guest to be held after the marriage in a house or hotel- after which is the honeymoon It is lucky to get married during shrove or halloween. The month of june is also considered lucky, but may is downright unlucky. There are also superstitions about the day on which one is married, for instances
Monday for health,
Tuesday for wealth
Wednesday the best day of all
Thursday for loses
friday for crosses
but saturday no luck at all(continues on next page)- Collector
- Josephine Stafford
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Calliaghstown Lower, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mrs Cecilia Stafford
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Calliaghstown Lower, Co. Dublin