School: Collon (roll number 14579)
- Location:
- Collon, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The following twelve days after Christmas fortell, what the twelve months of the year will be like. - On St. Stephens Day a number of boys go around from door to door and sing songs, and one principal rhyme heard in this district is:-The wran the wran the king of all birds.
St. Stephen's Day he was caught in a forge.
Up with the kettle, and down with the pan.
Give me some money to bury the wran.On St Brigid's Eve. everyone makes a cross of rushes, and on St John's Day and on the eve of the feast of St.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brigid Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leabby Cross, Co. Louth