School: Leggah, Moyne (roll number 14328)
- Location:
- Leggagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Francis Gallagher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0760, Page 528
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- There is no day in the year on which boys and girls have such fun as on St. Stephen's Day.
It falls on the 26th December, the day after the great feast of Our Lord.
Boys and girls dress in old clothes and put false faces on them, and go around from door to door asking money to bury the wren. If they get no money they bury a wren's feather at the door of the house. This, according to the old superstition, would cause the people of that house to have bad luck for seven years.
Oftentimes a crowd of boys would go to towns and gather three or four pounds and have a wren-spree in some house in the townland. The leaders would go to the nearest town and buy plenty of tea, sugar, bread,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ellen Briody
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Leggagh, Co. Longford
