School: Kelladone (roll number 5123)
- Location:
- Killadoon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Padhraic Maguidhir
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- St stephens night is the next night to Christmas. On that night all the boys go round from house to house in search of money. They dress themselves in different colours of clothes and they put false faces on themselves. They also get a wren and bring (them) him round with them from place to place. They bring the wren in honour of St Stephen. It is said that when the soldiers were in search of St Stephen that they sat down to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Needham
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Feenune, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Own Grady
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Corrydavit, Co. Mayo