School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- An Baile Nua (Shea), Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: (ní thugtar ainm)
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- Several feast days have many old customs attached to them.
St Stephen's day or "Boxing Day" is kept on the 26th of December
St Stephen's is a great day of fun for boys.
Most boys dress themselves up in torn clothes and some girls' clothes They blacken their faces with polish. They go around from house to house gathering money to bury the wren. Some of them bring a holly bush on which there is a dead wren. This wren is supposed to have mocked Our(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brigid Ní Longáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tAgard, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Edward Long
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- An tAgard, Co. Chill Chainnigh