Scoil: Teampoll Tuaithe, Teampoll Mór (B.) (uimhir rolla 16250)

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1. Ancient Festivals

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Of the many ancient festivals held in this district in former times, few remain. The best known of these old festivals was that of St. Stephen's day. In former years a group of boys or young men assembled on that morning. They were usually dressed very queer and most of them had some kind or another instrument, such as an old fiddle, a melodian, a mouth organ, or a "jusarp."
   They then went marching from house to house singing or playing. "The wren, the wren, the King of all birds. On St. Stephen's day was caught in the furze. Up with the kettle an down with the pan. A penny or twopence to bury the wren."
   One of the party usually carried a bush of holly, and sometimes a dead wren tied out of it. When the day's marching was over, the money collected was divided among the group and they

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   Topaicí

   1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Thomas Bergin

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Teampall Tuaithe, Co. Thiobraid Árann

   Faisnéiseoir

   Timothy Bergin

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   59

   Seoladh

   Teampall Tuaithe, Co. Thiobraid Árann