School: Rosmead (roll number 7212)
- Location:
- Cavestown and Rosmead, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: E. Lynch
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Rosmead
- XML Page 064
- XML “Marriages”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Told by Thomas Quinn (64) Farmer, Rosmead, Delvin, Co Westmeath.
Collected by Peggy Quinn (12)Marriages
Long ago in former times the prieests used to marry the people in the houses generally after dinner, there were no 'eight o clock marriages'. "Monday for wealth, tuesday for health, wednesday the best day of all. Thursday for losses, Friday for crosses, Saturday no time at all". "Married in blue sure to rue, married in red you would rather be dead, married in grey you would go far away, married in brown you would live in the town, married in black you would wish yourself back, married in green you are not to be seen, married in yellow you are asha-(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggy Quinn
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Cavestown and Rosmead, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Thomas Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cavestown and Rosmead, Co. Westmeath