School: Tullyvin
- Location:
- Tulaigh Bhinn, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: M. Feeney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 436
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- Some of the boys in this district gather up on St. Stephen's day and hunt the wren. They dress up like Indians and go about from house to house gathering money. The people give them money because they might bury the wren in the land and bad luck would come to that person. They dance and sing in the houses to which the go but some people do not let them in. They have several different wren-songs and they sing a different song at every house.
Here is one of the songs they sing|:-
The wren, the wren, the king of all birds,
On St. Stephen's day was got dead in the furze,
Up with the pot, and down with the pan,
If you don't give me something,
I will bury the wren.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jerrard Mc Cutcheon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ashfield Glebe, Co. an Chabháin
