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Saint Stephen’s Day Meet, Ballingarry, County Tipperary. 2017

This film captures the Saint Stephen's day Meet with horses and hounds in Ballingarry The Tipperary Foxhounds arrange the Meet. Musicians dressed as Wren Boys, played traditional instruments at the start of the Meet on the street, outside “The Miners Rest”, this created a fun occasion for families. The Field Master joined the craic by dancing. Traditionally on Saint Stephen’s Day, groups of mostly boys and men called ‘The Wren Boys’ dress up in old clothes and paint their faces. They then travelled from door to door singing, dancing and playing music demanding money to “bury the wren”. Wrens are small, brownish birds they were hunted and killed by Christians, because pagans regarded wrens as sacred. Ballingarry is a village in County Tipperary near the border with Kilkenny. The surrounding rolling agricultural land is mainly used for Dairy Farming. The field boundaries are generally open drains with clay banks. The day started frosty and became bright and was dry and overcast. The air was fresh and visibility was good. Ballingarry is a village in county Tipperary. It was the centre of a coal-mining industry for nearly two hundred years up until the nineteen eighties. The huntsman, whippers-in and foxhounds, followed by the Field Masters and riders, headed out of the village in search of foxes. Initially moving south west, then north towards the Commons. The Huntsman with the help of the Whippers-in control and direct the pack of foxhounds during the days hunting. The huntsman uses a horn to communicate with the hounds and whippers-in, field masters and riders. The pack is also controlled by a variety of voice calls and the use of whips. The field masters are in charge of the field (riders); his or her prime function is to stop the field over-running the hounds, hindering the hounds while they work, to prevent the field going into areas where access has been refused and to minimise damage to crops and fences. Historically, Ballingarry found fame in 1848 when a rebellion broke out against British rule. The site of this uprising, the McCormack farm House, now known as the Famine Warhouse. Ventilation Chimney was used to pull impure air from the coal mines underneath. A fire was lit inside the chimney at ground level, which caused a draught.