School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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- Customs on certain days
1) On St Stephen's day youngsters go out gathering money as they say "to bury the wren". Usually the people give them 6 or 7 or often, shilling. When they would go into a house they would dance and sing songs like the following.
1) Up with the kettle,
Down with the pan,
give e my answer
and let me be gone.
2) The wren, the wren
The king of all birds
St Stephen's day he was caught in the furge
2)On St Patrick's day people wear the shamrock on their coats to honour the patron saint of Ireland - St Patrick. Long ago the old people used(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Keely
- Gender
- Female
