School: Gleann Bruacháin (C.), Cnoc Luinge (roll number 12614)
- Location:
- Glenbrohane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Sheighin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0511, Page 476
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- (continued from previous page)all night long & tired & weary the guests left at day break for home.
For a whole month then, the bride could not enter her old home & the Sunday after the month was up guests were again invited to house of bride to "hauling home" & another dance was given. Several friends who had been at wedding would also give a dance to the newly married, so that for about 2 months there was great revelling & feasting.
There were several roads & crosses then, where no wedding group woul pass by. In the townsland of Ballingarry is a road called the Line & it is considered very unlucky for a newly married couple to leave the Church & go along that road. There is also a cross near Ballylanders, 2mls from here, where a gallows was said to be at one time & no wedding would pass by it in olden days but now there is no notice taken of it.
It was often said that the lady who was shown to the prospective bridegroom, when he went to see her, was not the one he got at the alter. He did not recognise her, as all brides that time(continues on next page)
