School: Drom Fada (roll number 16137)
- Location:
- Drumfad, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Coluínn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 299
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- (continued from previous page)during Christmas you will have the same number of happy months in the following year.
About 400 years ago a person would go to his neighbours house with a straw and they would pass it on to the next house and in this way it is said that all Ireland could be warned in twenty four hours.
Boys would go round with a holly bush decorated with ribbons. They said a rhyme and then the people would give them money. This was done on St. Stephen's Day. The rhyme they said,
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The wren, the wren, the king of all birds.
On St. Stephen's day it was caught in the furze.
Although she is little, her family(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Florence Mc Collum
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carran Lower and Upper, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Sweeney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Magherawardan, Co. Donegal
