School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)
- Location:
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Garland
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- (continued from previous page)town-Geoghegan. He is now living in Tyrrellspass.
- Ireland has had her share of dark and gloomy days but the period which stands out alone, as the darkest and gloomiest which our unfortunate country ever experienced, was the black period of 1845, '46, '47. Famine stalked through the land, people died in hundreds and thousands in their homes in the streets, and on the roadside, and this area did not escape unscathed. There is nobody living who remembers the famine, but many stories have been told of it by the fathers and grandfathers of the old people living to-day.An old man named Paddy Scott who lies a few hundred yards away from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mona Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Patrick Scott
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
