School: Tamhnach, Inis
- Location:
- Tamhnach, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Proinnsias Gordún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0613, Page 160
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- (continued from previous page)year. People say that green is not a lucky colour to marry in. They say that thirteen is an unlucky number at a wedding breakfast.The fortune is usually land or money. On Shrove Tuesday Night, some people go to doors of people who are not married and leave old tins at the doors. There used be people married in their own houses long ago. People say that Tuesdays and Wednesdays are lucky days for marriages.Collected by Mary Roughtn from her mother, Mrs D Roughan, Fountain Cross, Ennis. Aged 41 yrs.
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- Collector
- Michael Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leicneán, Co. an Chláir
- Informant
- James Hurley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Leicneán, Co. an Chláir
