School: Muclach
- Location:
- Mucklagh, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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- (continued from previous page)go from house to house dressed up in different colours. They sing the sing of the wren.
"The wren, the wren, the King of all birds"
St Stephens Day she was caught in the furze. "Up with the kettle and down with the pan a penny or two-pence to bury the wren".
They gather money and divid it among themselves. They dance and play mouth-organs, and tin whistles and melodeons. They go in the morning and they and they come home at night.
On St Brigids eve people make crosses out of timber and others reeds and hang them out of the ceiling. Long ago in my district people go round on St Brigids night with an immage of St Brigid made out of wood. They knocked at the doors and the people(continues on next page)
