School: Leggah, Moyne (roll number 14328)
- Location:
- Leggagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Francis Gallagher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0760, Page 531
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- (continued from previous page)My father told me that when he was a little boy the people were more superstitious than they are now. If persons refused to give money to the wren boys, twenty or thirty years ago, all they had to do was to say that they would bury a feather of the wren convenient to their house and they would immediately give money rather than run the risk of having bad luck for a number of years.
Long ago the wren boys went on foot from house to house and as they could not cover a great deal of ground the takings were generally small.
Sometime they trampled through rain and snow from morning till night and had only one shilling or one and sixpence for their trouble.
Nowadays the wren boys travel on bicycles and often(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tom Conefrey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corglass, Co. Longford
- Informant
- John Joe Conefrey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Corglass, Co. Longford
