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School: Cnoc an Chodlata, Cill an Mhuillinn (roll number 9097)

Location:
Knockacullata, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Fheargail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0370, Page 126

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    On St. Stephen's Day boys gather together and go from house to house with decorated bushes singing the wren-song and gathering money.
    They get a holly bush and decorate it with differently coloured papers and kill a wren and put him in the centre of the bush. They get a few pence from every house they go into.
    When they would be gone to every house they share the money between them
    This is the song they sing
    The wren, the wren, the king of all birds.
    St. Stephen's Day he was caught in the furze
    From bush to bush from tree to tree
    At Beenaskehy cross he broke his knee
    Up with the kettle and
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Drinan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Eugene Drinan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    56
    Address
    Knockacullata, Co. Cork