School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)
- Location:
- Droim an Teampaill, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Chuinn
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- (continued from previous page)taking them out of the field they were stopped at a certain gap by a large crowd of little men which were called the "Gentry". They were shouting and making great noise as if they were going to another fair. So the man and woman had to wait there until they disappeared from sight.
Mary Noone, Curnamuckla, Ballymoe. Co. Galway
- St Stephen's Day
All the boys dress up in old clothes, false faces, and old hats with feathers decorating them. They go around from house to house playing melodeons and dancing and singing.
This is the song they sing
"The Wren, the Wren, the king of all birds.
St Stephen's Day he got caught in the furze
So up with the kettle and down with the pan
And give me a penny to bury the Wren"
They gather money which they divide. When they(continues on next page) - Collector
- Janie Mc Neill
- Address
- Cluain idir Dhá Áth, Co. na Gaillimhe
