School: Coolanarney
- Location:
- Coolanarney, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: D. Mac Gairbhíth
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- (continued from previous page)that the Blessed Virgin comes in with the Child Jesus and sits by the fire, warms the child and then goes out.4. On St. Stephen's day people dress up in old clothes and go from house to house carrying a dead wren on the top of a stick. They generally stand outside the doors, singing a verse on the wren which is a way of asking money to bury it.5. Another game is played on November night, people call it pancake night. The woman of the house gets a large basin full of flour and makes up the batter putting a ring into it, then when the cakes are all baked they are cut up in squares and the tea is prepared. Then the people of the household(continues on next page)
