School: Feevagh (roll number 9517)
- Location:
- Feevagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Ó Bhaldraithe
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- On St Stephen's Day, all the boys of this village join in a band and around the parish gathering money "to bury the wren".
They disguise themselves by wearing old clothes, and masks over their faces. They do not hunt or kill a wren nor have they any special way of dressing themselves. One of them takes all the money and divides it in equal shares for all in the evening. It is spent in any way. When they come to(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Mulligan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowntarriff, Co. Roscommon