School: Sean-Mhachaire (roll number 17015)
- Location:
- Shanvaghera, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Máille
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- There are many feasts in the year. In every district the people have different customs. St Stephen's Day is celebrated on 26th of december. On that day the small boys of the district go round from house to house and dress themselves in old clothes and tie straw round their legs. They carry a dead wren and they put on false faces and some of them who can play a flute play when they come in to the house and then they say, "help to bury the wren" and the people give them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christina O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meeltran, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Delia O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Meeltran, Co. Mayo