School: Lios Leacach (B. & C.) (roll number 12732 / 12733)
- Location:
- An Lios Leacach, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Máire E. Uí Einrí
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0123C, Page 09_025
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)flutes.
They play in each house and others dance. Then they recite a little poem -
"The wren, the wren, the king of all birds,
On St Stephen's day, he was caught in the furze.
Up with the kettle and down with the pan,
A penny or twopence to bury the wren."
Then they passed to the next house and in this way they travel the district.
When they have the district travelled they divide the money equally amongst themselves or else they go to the shop and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridgie Higgins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lios Bragáin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
