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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 173

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    173.
    (1) If it rains on this day it will rain for forty days and forty nights.
    (2) St Swithin was very fond of (chil) school children and when he was dying he told them to bury him in the path through the grave-yard where the children used to go to school. When they had him buried they got sorry for what they were after doing and they went out to bury him in a better place as they thought but it started raining and kept raining for forty days and forty nights and they could not move him.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Doolin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glyn, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mrs C. Doolin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glyn, Co. Offaly