School: Glenderry (roll number 10403)
- Location:
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Gleathbhúir
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- On Christmas night we light candles in every window in honour of Christ being born in the stable at Bethlehem, 1938 years ago.
St. Stephen's Day there are always races in Ballyheigue and on that day also people go around from house to house gathering money, carrying a dead wren in a holly bush.
They generally have a rhyme made about it. "The wren the wren the king of all birds, St. Stephen's Day she was caught in the furze." On the night of the sixth of January at twelve o'clock the water is(continues on next page)- Collector
- Thomas Gaynor
- Gender
- Male
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- Thomas Gaynor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry