School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- An Charraigeach Íochtarach, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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- On St. Stephen's Day boys gather and disguise themselves with queer sort of clothes. One of the boys play on some musical instrument while the other boys dance. They carry with them a wren in a cage. When they have finished dancing they say :-
"The wren, the wren
King of all the birds
On St. Stephen's Day
He was caught in the furze.
Up with the kettle
And down with the pan
Give us a penny to bury the wren"
This song is called the wren song . The boys ask at every house for money to bury the wren.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael J. Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Charraigeach Íochtarach, Co. Shligigh