School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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- The boys in my district go following the wren on St. Stephen's Day. They get a stick of holly and puts a wren on top of it or a few brown feathers. Long ago they used to gather about two pounds. On of the neighbours would give them the house to have a dance. All the people would come to this dance. The boys sing; "The wren the wren the king of the birds On St. Stephen's Day was caught in the furze[?] Up with the kettle and down with the pans Give us a penny to bury the wren."
St Patrick's Day is on the seventeenth of March and the Irish people all over the world(continues on next page)