School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 473
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- (continued from previous page)weeds, during the summer months, and fresh clay is put to them at intervals.In Autumn time they are ploughed out, and a few neighbours help in picking them into baskets.When they are brought home they are put in pits and covered with the stalks. The potatoes that grow in my district are, Spry's Abundance, Epicure, Chieftans, Shamrock and Kerr's Pink.I got this information from my mother:-
Rose Curran (age 47)Signed:- Annie Curran,
Grange,
Droichead Nua,
Co. Kildare.
- Festival Customs
In most districts many feasts are followed in some special way as they occur each year. On St Stephen's Day, boys and in some places grown up men, gather together, in small bands and go around from house to house, singing the wren song, they have a decorated bush, with a wren on it, and sometimes they only have an imitation of a wren on it. The song sung is:-
"The wren, the wren, the king of all birds. St Stephen's Day, she was caught in the furze(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nell Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hawkfield, Co. Kildare
