School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0545, Page 101](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0545%2FCBES_0545_101.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0545, Page 101
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen
- XML Page 101
- XML “Festival Customs”
- XML “Festival Customs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)[-]
- 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)- Collector
- Maureen Devitt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Thomas Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Rusheen Beg, Co. Kerry