School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Ráth Ciaragáin, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0809, Page 065
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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
- Wednesday is supposed to be the luckiest day in the week to get married, as the rhyme says.
Monday for wealth.
Tuesday for health.
Wednesday the best day of all.
Thursday for crosses.
Friday for losses.
Saturday no day at all.
There is anther rhyme about the clothes of the bride.
"Something old"
Something new
Something borrowed
Something blue
Marriages frequently take place before Lent and Advent. When a pair is coming out of the church after being married, there is generaly someone belonging to the wedding throwing confeti on them. It is not lucky for the bride to home until she is a month married.
- Collector
- Susan Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Garbhaile, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
