School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eoin
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- Many years ago there lived a man named Saint Swithen. He died on the 11th of July. On that day it rained and rained by forty days and the people could not bury him. It is an old saying that if it rains on the 11th of July it will rain 40 days after.It is said that the seventh son is generally a doctor and the seventh daughter a woman that can do any man's work such as harrowing, ploughing, cobbling etc.(continues on next page)