School: Coillte Clochair (C.) (roll number 2364)
- Location:
- Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sorcha Ní Mhuireagáin
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- St. Stephen's Day is the day after Christmas. On that day young men go out after the wren and sing the wrens song. If they kill the wren according to an old custom they would break a rib in the devil.
- Collector
- Lelia Dolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Dolan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim