School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)
- Location:
- Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tomás Diolún
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- (continued from previous page)games which everyone enjoys himself at. First get a big tub half full with water and then put a sixpence into the water and whoever is the lucky one gets a sixpence.
On St. Stephens day all the town boys and the country boys gather together in groups and go around from house to house collecting money to bury the wren. One of these boys in his hand carries a little wren which he caught in the hedge in the morning. When they reach the house they hold the wren in there hands and they sing these words.
''The wren the wren the king of all birds, on St. Stephens day she was(continues on next page)- Collector
- Annie Mac Sharry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardakip Beg, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Mac Sharry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardakip Beg, Co. Leitrim