School: Faltia
- Location:
- Faltia, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Thomas Quinn
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- Every district has its own customs for holding feast days. On Saint Stephen's day all the young boys and girls go from house to house with the wren. They dress up in old clothes, and the song they sing at every house is " The wren, the wren the King of all birds St. Stephen's day, he was caught in the furze, up with the kittle, and down with the pan a penny or two pence to bury the wren."
In the evening they divide the money equally among themselves. On St. Brigid's night all the young people go round the brídeógs. They gather flour, tea, and sugar etc., and they hold the feast a few nights after in a neighbouring house.
On Ash Wednesday the people eat or drink nothing only potatoes, buttermilk and tea without any sugar in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tully, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Tully, Co. Roscommon
