School: Radharc na Mara (roll number 15424)
- Location:
- Rosses Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Mhaolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 126
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Festival Customs
On St. Stephens day all the boys and girls gather together and go from house to house shouting "The wren the wren the king of all the birds, who ever was caught on St. Stephen day in the firs up with the kittle and down with the pan give a few pence the most we gone"
On May day all the people go to the bogs and gather May flowers and throw them on the tatch to welcome in the May.
On St. Martins day every house kills a duck a hen or a goose in honour of St Martin.
- Collector
- Martin A. Finnegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
