School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile an Doirín (C)
- XML Page 03_008
- 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
- Marriage Customs
1. When people are going to the church to get married it is right to put a pinch of salt down the bride's back.
2. The bride should bring nothing but eggs at first to the husband's house.
3. It is not right to marry a person on Monday.
4. It is unlucky two marriages to take place on the same day.
5. When the bride is going to the church to be married she should wear something old something new something borrowed and something blue.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kitty Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Thomas Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Galway