School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 14_012
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- St Stepens day is a happy day for all the boys. It falls in the 26th December.
The night before the boys go out with lamps searching for wrens.
They make a small box for the wren a few days before.
The next day they get old worn clothes to put on them and they go out to every house with the wren and they say at every door "Honour the wren".
Sometimes when they can't find any birds they come to the houses playing on flutes.
- Collector
- Jimmie Adams
- Gender
- Male
