School: Gaile, Caisleán Mumhan (roll number 15299)
- Location:
- Gaile, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Meachair
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- Festival Customs
Wren boys visit our home on Saint Stephen's Day every year. Different numbers of them come together. They dress in rags and sometimes polish their faces. They play music and sing songs and then they get money.
The songs they sing is :-
The wren, the wren
The king of all birds
Saint Stephen's Day
She was caught in the furze
So up with the kettle and
Down with the pan
So give us a penny
To bury the wren.The wren the wren
That you may see
Hanging on a holly tree
So up with the kettle and
Down with the pan and
Give us a penny
To bury the wren.As I was going to Killanaule
I saw a wren upon the wall
So I up with my stick
And I knocked her down and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Francis Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenbane Upper, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Maher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glenbane Upper, Co. Tipperary