School: Cnoc an Chodlata, Cill an Mhuillinn (roll number 9097)
- Location:
- Cnoc an Chodlata, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fheargail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0370, Page 133
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- On St Stephen's day the boys in the district go hunting the wren and sometimes they kill him but very often they do not. They get a bush of holly and one of them goes in front of the others and he is called the "leader".
They go into every house in the district singing songs about the wren.
- Collector
- Joseph Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Binn na Sceiche, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Edmund Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 32
