School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- An Baile Nua (Shea), Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: (ní thugtar ainm)
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- There are a great many old festival customs carried on here in Ireland yet.
"St Stephens Day", is famous around here for its wren boys.
A crowd of boys, gather together, on Stephen's Day, and they dress up in all sorts of old clothes, and they get different old musical instruments, such as melodions, tin whistles and flutes.
They dress up in the old clothes, and blacken their faces, and they travel around, from house to house.
Some of them dance, or(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Other names
- Máire de Paor
- Mary Power
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tAgard, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Dún Iomagáin, Co. Chill Chainnigh