School: Virginia (C )
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs B. Farrelly
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- On St. Stephen's day a number of boys gather together and dress themselves in old clothes. They wear a false face so that they may not be known. Some of them bring fiddles and mouth organs and they play on them, while the others dance and sing.
They recite the Wren Song as follows
The wren, the wren, the King
of all birds
On St. Stephen's day he was
caught in the furze
Up with the kettle and down
with the pan
A penny or twopence to bury
the wren
Get up old land lady and
give us a treat(continues on next page)- Collector
- Madge Hanratty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Frank Sheridan
- Gender
- Male