School: Lower Warren (roll number 7793)
- Location:
- Warren Lower, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Liam Mac Coiligh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 288
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Lower Warren
- XML Page 288
- XML “Puss in Boots”
- XML “Wake Game - Mending the Coat”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)shape he eat her up. When two men came to the castle the cat gave it to the son and lived happy together after that.
- Every person sits down on the floor with two pieces of straw in their hands which they use as needles and then they start mending the coat. One after another they start calling out for different coloured threads that they require. One man may call for a red thread and then immediately they all rush to the person who has red hair and start pulling the hairs out off his head which they call thread. Another man may call for black thread and then they black haired person suffers.
- Collector
- Eddie Hatton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bealin, Co. Westmeath
