School: Corlea
- Location:
- Corlea, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Mearáin
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- (continued from previous page)They hang their stockings by the fire side into which their people put presents which they get in the morning. On Christmas day it is a custom for all to be in their own houses, and each family has its own amusement for that day. On St Stephen's, boys and grown up men gather and go in procession with decorated bushes singing the wren song. They carry a dead wren in a little box and if they are refused money they bury the wren at the person's door and this is supposed to bring ill luck. The following are the verses sung by the wren(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Mooney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Closnabraddan or Taghart North, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Brigid Mooney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Closnabraddan or Taghart North, Co. Cavan