School: Tullow (Monastery)
- Location:
- Tullow, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Br. Míchéal Ó Maoileoin
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- One of the best Festival Customs which is carried on in this district is on the Festival of St Stephens day. On St Stephens morning a number of boys gather together, some with sticks some with slug guns & other with catterpults. They then set of through the fields searching for that small little bird called the wren.
When they have caught the wren, they tie her to a holly branch. Then they put on old clothes & paint each others faces.
They they get mouth-organs, tin-whistles & any class of musical instrements & go around to all the houses singing & dancing & in nearly every house they get money when they are leaving.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick Walker
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullow, Co. Carlow