School: Dennmore
- Location:
- Dennmore or Legganden, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Harriet Heaslip
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- On St. Stephen's Day bands of boys and girls go from house to house asking for money. They wear false faces and have a box on the end of a stick in which they stick feathers to make people think they have a wren. The say a rhythm which begins " The wren, the wren the king of all birds, St Stepthen's Day he was caught on the furze.... and make music. When night falls they go (the ) to a public house and spend the money.
- Collector
- Kester Heaslip
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killynanum, Co. Cavan