School: Mohill (B.) (roll number 12415)
- Location:
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Francis Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 069
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- (continued from previous page)and fiddles. Some of them dance and more of them play. There is always a clown along with them. They put on false-faces. They go around from house to house playing and dancing. They bring a money-box with them, when they have done playing and dancing they shake the box. The people of the house put a penny or two in their box. They divide it equally among each other. If the people of the house do not give them money they say "up with- with the kettle and down with the pan give us a penny to bury the wren." They will bury the wren outside the door. They go into the town in the evening, and they buy a half barrel of porter. They bring sticks with them afraid another crowd would rob them.
- Collector
- John Ward
- Gender
- Male
