School: Áth Liag (roll number 15308)
- Location:
- Athleague, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Máirtín
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- (continued from previous page)they composed a little rhyme which is:- Monday for health Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day at all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for crosses, and Saturday no day at all. They also say that June is the best and the luckiest month of the year to get married. A couple of days before the marriage the man in which is getting married sends a man to the house of the girl which he intends to marry to ask her. If the girl is let marry him the man takes out a bottle of whiskey and everyone in the house(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castlestrange, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Pat Mannion
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cooly, Co. Roscommon