School: Glenderry (roll number 10403)
- Location:
- Gleann Doire, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Gleathbhúir
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- (continued from previous page)one another, the boy and the girl will marry. St. Stephen's day people go from house to house gathering money. They carry a dead wren on a holly bush, and they have a song about the wren, which goes like this. "The wren, the wren, the king of all birds; St. Stephen's day she was caught in the furze. Up with kettle, down with pan, and give us a shilling to bury the wren!" St. Patrick's day falls on the 17th of March but only in Ireland. We wear badges on that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nicholas Gibbons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gleann Doire, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- John Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gleann Doire, Co. Chiarraí
