The Wrenboys have some similarities with the skeklers of Shetland.

The ninth century Cormac's Glossary derives the Old Irish word for "wren", drean, from druí-én, meaning "druid bird", and says it is "a bird that makes prophecies".

In Kerry, they were accompanied by a hobby horse called the Láir Bhán.

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