School: Kilsarcon (B.), Fearann Fuar (roll number 14797)
- Location:
- Cill tSearcon Thiar, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Murchadha
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- This day is also called the Day of the Wran (wren). Boys (up to the age of thirteen or fourteen) kill a wren. Tie him on a bit of stick, and decorate him with holly and laurel. They then go around from house to house collecting money. Sometimes he repeat this verse
The wren, the wren the king of all birds
On St Stephen's day he was caught in the furze.
Up with the kettle, and down with the pan.
A penny or two to bury the wren.
(N.B. wren is pronounced "wran"They get a few pence almost in every house.
