School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)
- Location:
- Carrowgilhooly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 218
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- (continued from previous page)bits of your Nov. Eve supper, put it in your left stocking and tie it with your left garter. Then sleep on it and you'll dream of the person you'll marry. St. Stephen's Day.
On that day the young men gather together and go hunting the wren and singing xmas carols.
Here is the wren song,
"The wren, the wren the King of all birds,
On St Stephen's Day was caught in the furze,
Rise up kind lady and give us a treat,
And if your treat it is but small,
It won't agree with the wren boys at all,
And if your treat is of the best,
I hope in Heaven your soul will rest,
Up with the kettle and down with the pan,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromard, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Miss A. Gilhooly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Dromard, Co. Sligo
