School: Drumkeelanmore (roll number 12525)
- Location:
- Droim Chaoláin Mór, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Mary Mc Rann
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- (continued from previous page)wren at the doorstep and it is said the people of that house will have bad luck during the year.
In some districts they would not get money unless they had a wren and in other districts it is reckoned as cruelty.
When night comes they divide the money equally among themselves and the buy some refreshments for themselves such as sweets apples oranges chocolate and buns. The ones who are drinking buy drink.
The reason why the wren is hunted is because when St Stephen was hiding in the yew tree, and the soldiers stop to look for him, the wren chippered very loudly around the tree, which made the soldiers stop to look, and so they got him and stoned him to death and from then on she is punished.Rosaleen Woods. 24 th January 1938.
- Collector
- Rosaleen Woods
- Gender
- Female
