School: Ballyglass (roll number 14642)
- Location:
- Ballyglass West, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)As black as coal and as white as snow and it hops on the road like hailstone. A magpie
- St Stephen’s day falls on the 26th day of December every year.
The people have an awful custom on that day every year.
They dress themselves up in old clothes and they put masks on their faces and they go around to every house they can and they go dancing and singing and they gather alot of money.
They have a rhyme and they say it in every house and this is it. The wren the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bridie Howley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lavally, Co. Galway