School: Tobar (C.)
- Location:
- Tober, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Bean Uí Thóirdhealbhaigh
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Locally the bride cuts the wedding -cake and all the grown up girls get a piece to put under their pillow to dream of their future husband.
Some people think it unlucky for the bride to look in a mirror after she is thoroughly dressed.
If two people of the same name marry each other the bread the lady makes cures the whooping cough.
It is unlucky for the bride to dress in green.
It is unlucky to get married on Saturday or on the thirteenth of the month.
It is said that a person is never to go and come the same road when getting married.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Betty Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Faheeran, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mary Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Faheeran, Co. Offaly