School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)
- Location:
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Garland
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- (continued from previous page)that they were living in this cave so they went and burned the monastery. But luckily enough there was another opening to the cave and the monks escaped. The Priest hunters thought they had them burned.
- "Oh weep those days, those penal days
When Ireland helplessly complained".
There are many things in this district that remind us of those terrible penal days. In Monaghanstown in the parish of Castletown-Geoghegan near Lough Ennel there is a monastery in which the monks lived and in which the priests said Mass during the penal days. There is a cave running under the ground from the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Davy Lynam
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Lynam
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath