School: Lisín, Baile na Caillighe (roll number 15564)
- Location:
- Lisheen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ríordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0606, Page 030
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- (continued from previous page)On May Day the houses are decorated with hawthorn blossoms. This day was a day of great fun in the district in olden times as on that day the May Queen was chosen. Then attended by all her companions who were dressed up especially for the occasion she proceeded to the village green where a May pole had been erected. Then holding on to the coloured ribbons hanging off the Maypole the boys and girls dance around it until late in the night.
On Saint Stephens day boys and in some places grown up men gather together and go in procession from house to house with decorated bushes singing the Wren Song. On the day before Saint Stephens day they kill the wren and hang him on a bush decorated with ribbons. The money they get they sometimes spend it on a dance and moretimes they divide it among(continues on next page)
