School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Thos. Plunkett
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 368
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballyhaise
- XML Page 368
- XML “Local 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
- The periods most frequently that marriages take place are the months of May and June. Friday is thought a very unlucky day to be married and the month of December. It is considered very unlucky to marry a red-haired man. It is unlucky to meet a woman with a twist in her eye on the day of the wedding and it is also unlucky to marry in the afternoon. If rice is mixed with confetti that gets thrown at them for luck, the bride is supposed to never want for anything. Another very old custom is to tie and old boot or shoe to the back of the carriage or motor-car in order to bring luck. If the bride wants to have luck she should wear
Something old and
Something new
Something borrowed and
Something blue.
Very few matches are made in this district but in olden times there were a great many. A dowry is often given to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Madaline Greene
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
