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School: Mount Talbot (roll number 14056)

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Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
M. Ó Héimhthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0267, Page 237

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    saucer with the water is supposed to cross the sea first. Whoever puts his or her hand on the saucer with the ring in it will get married first.
    On the "twelvth day" of Christmas a cake of "cow-dung" is made. Ashes is put over the cake and twelve lighted candles are stuck into the ashes. This is done in honour of the twelve apostles.
    On St. Stephen's Day a great number of boys dress up. They go round from house to house singing songs or playing on some musical instrument or they repeat this rhyme:-
    "The wren, the wren,
    The king of all birds.
    On St. Stephen's Day
    He was caught in the furze.
    From bush to bush
    From tree to tree,
    'Till one of the wrenboys came
    And broke his knee.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín Ní Fhíneachtaigh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    A. Finerty
    Age
    53
    Address
    Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon