School: Báinseach, Cill Chaoi (roll number 11714)

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   called unlucky months. November is also a lucky month and December is an unlucky month. It is a custom for people nowadays to pelt rice on the boy and girl when they are after being married. People say this is also lucky.
   It is lucky to marry in pink. It is also lucky to marry in navy blue but to wear a grey hat is unlucky. When there was no chapel there long ago the priest used marry the people in the house the Parish priest of Bealaha lives in at the present day. It is in Baltard.

   

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   Long ago marriages used to take place on Shrove Tuesday, but now anytime at all will do. Long ago the priest used to come into the houses and marry the couple but now the laws are changed they have to go to the chapel. When a couple are getting married they have to go and walk the land and draw the writings

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Hickey

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kildeema, Co. Clare

   Informant

   Mrs Hickey

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   56

   Address

   Kildeema, Co. Clare