School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- (continued from previous page)those two days the luckiest. They never liked to get married in the month of May. They said it was an awfully unlucky month. They liked to get married in the months of January, February, and March. They counted those three months the luckiest months in the year to get married. They would have the wedding the night before the man and woman would get married. The day of the wedding there would be up to thirty or forty horsemen. All the horsemen would come to the woman's house, and then all would stand there until the woman would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinlough, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Hugh Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinlough, Co. Mayo
