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British Popular Customs, Present and Past

June 9.]

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IRELAND.

June 9.]

IRELAND.

Clonmany, Co. Donegal.

The titular saint of this parish is Columbkill. The 9th of June is his festival day, and formerly on this day many of the inhabitants drove down their cattle to the beach, and swam them in that part of the sea into which runs the water of St. Columb’s Well—Mason’s Stat. Acc. of Ireland, 1814, vol. i. p. 185.

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