School: Ferbane (Convent)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr. Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0813, Page 405
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- On Saint Stephen's Day the boys dress up and go from house to house singing and dancing, they sing:
"The wren, the wren,the king of all birds, Saint Stephen's Day, she was caught in the furze.
Up with the kettle and down with the pan. A penny. we bury the wren"
They got a few pence from the people they divide it evenly between them.
On Saint Patrick's Day everyone wears a bit of Shamrock or a Patrick's cross.
Everyone eats as many eggs as she is able on Easter Sunday.
Everyone puts up a May bush the eve of May and leave it up the whole month.
A cock is killed for Saint Martin's Day.
On Hallow Eve all the children in the house have great sport diving for apples and hanging an apple with a bit of twine out of the ceiling, whoever gets the first bit of the apple has the whole of the apple.
On Shrone Tuesday pancakes are made .
- Collector
- Rosie Gleeson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
