School: Corry (roll number 7011)
- Location:
- Corry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Cox
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- (continued from previous page)dancing and dance through other for a couple of hours. They would get all sorts of drink.
No matter how young the bride was she would have a white bonnet on her and it crotcha [?] in the new home after a couple of days with red drapings hanging out of it. There was a certain girl in this parish about eighty years ago, the night before she was married she scrubbed herself with salt because she was of sallow complexion she thought it would make her white but it did her no good. People say that it must have preserved her as she lived to be a very old age.Rhyme
Monday for health
Tuesday for wealth
Wednesday the best day of all
Thursday for losses
Friday for crosses.
And Saturday there's no luck at all.- Collector
- Josie Newman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballygarvey, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Edward Newman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Ballygarvey, Co. Westmeath