School: Mercy Convent, Granard (roll number 13846)
- Location:
- Granard, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr. Conception
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Festival Customs
2nd May, 1938. On Saint Stephen's Day, 26th December, it is the custom as the people say "To bury the wren."
The young boys dress up in every kind of funny clothes, and painted face's. They usually go in groups with mouth organs, fiddles, flutes, melodians and small drums, and one boy carries a money box of some crude construction.
They go around from(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maggie Brogan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Granard, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Brigid Carr
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Granard, Co. Longford