School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máirtín Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 195
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- (continued from previous page)On Chalk Sunday the bachelors are chalked when at Mass on this day.
On holy Thursday the people spend and hour in the church in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
On May Day the young people decorate "May bushes" with flowers and coloured papers in honour of the blessed Virgin.
St Peter and Paul's day is also known as bonfire night. The new potatoes are first dug on this day.
- On St. Stephen's day we gather together and dress ourselves in uncomn looking clothes. We go from house to house with a decorated fur bush and a dead wren or the top of it. We sing the wren song:-"The wren the wren the King of all birds.
St. Stephens day she was caught in the furze
Up with the kettle and down with the pan.
Give us a few pence to bury the wren.
We hunted her up we hunted her down.
We hunted her into Paris town.(continues on next page)
