School: Bennekerry, Carlow
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- Bennekerry, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Liam Ó hAodha
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- There are several festival days during the year. St. Stephen's Day is one of those days. Hunting the wren is the custom on this day. As a rule, the wren boys dress in all sorts of queet costumes and provide a toy bird to represent the wren. They visit each house in the district, make a collection to bury the wren. They usually sing a few lines of an old songThe wren, the wren the king of all birds
St. Stephen's Day was caught in the firs,
Up with the kettle, down with the pan,
Give me a penny to bury the wren"Sometimes a lot of young fellows have a car, and take fiddles and melodeons and travel a long distance. They sing and dance at gentlemen's houses and gather(continues on next page)