School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)
- Location:
- Baile an tSrutháin, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: S. Garland
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- (continued from previous page)The memory of this Penal Days".
- They're gone, they're gone, those Penal Days
All creeds are equal in our isle.
When dealing with the Penal Days we are always reminded of Mass rocks, Mass paths, or Priest Hunters. Not far from the school in the townland of Moate there is a very well known place called Brockagh where there was no chapel or house in which to say mass and it was usually said under a large tree there. This tree has been blown down since that time and to point out the place a large wooden cross has been erected there surrounded by huge(continues on next page)
