School: Ballinorley (roll number 11597)
- Location:
- Béal Átha an Orlaí, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Mrs Anna Ewing
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0160, Page 264
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- On Boxing Day night the boys around our place sometimes go out in the "Wren Boys".
The "Wren Boys" from Sligo town, 3 miles away come round too. They never have a wren now, but they used to long ago. They wear false faces and dress themselves up in old clothes so that nobody will know them. They had branches of trees with paper streamers hanging from them. They sometimes have a melodian and sometimes just a mouth organ. They say this rhyme at every house:-(continues on next page)
- Collector
- O. Lindsay
- Gender
- Female
