School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)sing songs, and others play some sort of music. Some of those wren boys, gain a lot of money, and when the night comes, they divide the money, they get, and each person gets the same amount.
The song they sing is usually this. "The wren, the wren, the king of all birds.
On St Stephen's Day he was caught in the firzes.
Up with the pan, down with the kettle. Give us our answer, and let us be going."
The games I have seen been played on "Hallowee'n", are "skinning the apple", "trying to get the apple out of the basin of water", "and getting the sixpence out of the plate of flour".(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Other names
- Máire de Paor
- Mary Power
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny
