1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Longford, Kinnitty

School: Longford, Kinnitty

Location:
Longford, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
M. Ní Thuathaigh
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0820, Page 078

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0820, Page 078

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Longford, Kinnitty
  2. XML Page 078
  3. XML “Marriage Customs”

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

  1. Marriage Customs (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    Marry in white youll surely be right
    Marry in brown youll live in the town
    Marry in yellow youll show off the fellow
    Marry in green well fit to be seen
    Marry in grey youll go far away
    Marry in black youll wish to go
    Marry - back
    Marry in red youd sooner be dead
    Marry in pink your spirits will sink
    Pancake night the night before Ash Wednesay pancakes are made in which rings are put and whoever gets the ring will be married first. Some matches are made in the district, but about forty years a gentleman of the roads named Bergin used come from Roscrea every three
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Paddy O' Neill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clonlee, Co. Offaly