School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Cill Mogeanna, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- Most marriages take place during Shrove, ie., between the Twelfth day & Shrove Tuesday, this latter day being the principal.
May & August are considered unlucky months for marriage; according to"Marry in May & you'll rue the day"
What's reaped in the harvest is ripped in the Spring?"- Collector
- Patrick Noonan
- Gender
- Male
- Thursdays & Fridays are unlucky 'days'
She puts it in Rhyme thus:-"Monday for wealth
Tuesday for health
Wednesday, the best day of all.
Thursdays for losses
Friday for crosses &
Saturday, no luck atal"It was customary to throw rice or 'cut-up-paper' at the married couple or to tie an old shoe to the back of the car they ride on, to bring them luck. A wedding feast is usually held & the bride cuts the cake. - Matches were made, (MS Moore said - "The people brought a boy around from house to house to get a girl to match), when the girl got a dowry from her parents.
- There seemed to be "Professional match-makers as T. Moore says they were paid for making matches