School: Sixmilebridge (B.)
- Location:
- Six-mile-bridge, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Domhnalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0596, Page 332
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- (continued from previous page)land and potatoes. Then the girls parents would give the boy a good fortune. The the day before the marriage would be fixed, and there would be great preparations for the wedding in the girls house.
At nearly every wedding they used to have a few geese killed. When the couple would be getting ready for the marriage the bride would wear :
Something old, something new.
Something borrowed, something blue.
The bride and bridegroom would go to the church in two different cars, and they would come home in one car.
When they would be leaving the church the friends would throw old shoes after the married couple.
It is lucky to meet a tinker, and it is unlucky to meet a funeral coming home from the marriage.(continues on next page)
