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 go around the parish gathering money to bury the wren.
They disguise themselves by wearing old clothes and masks over their faces. They do not hurt or kill a wren, nor have they any special way of dressing themselves
One of them takes takes all the money and divides it in equal shares for all in the evening. It is spent in any way at all.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrycahill, Co. Roscommon