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School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)

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Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
S. Garland
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0733, Page 230

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    We are told also that the blood of an animal was mixed up with the lime and sand and that is why it is still standing. It has begun to crumble away of late years and during the Winter big patches of it have fallen.
    Beyond the village of Streamstown there is an old chapel which has lately been converted into a workshop. This chapel was built about three hundred years ago and was closed about one hundred and twenty years ago. A man named David Reebac used to live near the castle of Donore. He was a poet and foretold the destruction of the chapel and the murder of
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mona Montgomery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    Patrick Scott
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    78
    Address
    Streamstown, Co. Westmeath