School: Cloughjordan (C.) (roll number 11544)
- Location:
- Cloghjordan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Eibhlin, Bean Uí Sceacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 128
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The Wren, the wren
The King of the Birds,
St Stephens day she was caught in the furze,
Up with the kettle and down with the pan
Give us a penny to bury the wren.
Here she is for all to see,
Hanging on a holly tree,
A bunch of ribbons by her side,
Cloughjordan boys to be her guide.
The wren boys have holly bushes decorated with ribbon and a wren on the middle of it. In olden days when the porter was cheap the wren boys used to buy half a barrel of porter and they used have a dance in old barn and all the men used go home singing and shouting.
Now the wren boys divide the money amongst themselves and sweets.
Caitlín Ní Cionaoith
Kathleen McKenna
Cloughjordan
Co. TipperaryName - James Harty
Occupation - Farmer
Address - Loughane
Cloughjordan
Co. Tipperary
- Collector
- Caitlín Ní Cionaoith
- Other names
- Caitlín Ní Cionaoith
- Kathleen Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloghjordan, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- James Hardy
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Loughaun, Co. Tipperary
