School: Loughanvally (roll number 8363)
- Location:
- Loughanavally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs. O'Connor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 301
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- Christmas day falls on the 25th of December every year and the twelve days after it are called the twelve days of Christmas. The last one is called Little Christmas or Twelfth Day. On Christmas day nearly every one stays athome and there are seldom any parties. The people dress their houses with holly and mistletoe and Santa Claus comes to the children. The day after Christmas day is St. Stephens day. There was always a meet of the hounds in Bryanstown where there is a fox cover, but it was changed to Mearscourt because there were too many people there and the fox would run out of the cover and in again. The men and the boys go out to hunt the wren. They dress up in old clothes and they go to the houses gathering money. They catch a wren and they tie him on a piece of holly and they sing:- The wren the wren the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Oonagh Nugent
- Gender
- Female
