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School: Corry (roll number 7011)

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Corry, Co. Westmeath
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0741, Page 364

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    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.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josie Newman
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Ballygarvey, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    Edward Newman
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Ballygarvey, Co. Westmeath