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School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)

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Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0733, Page 233

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    stripped them. Then they put the policemen's uniforms on themselves while Joe Mac Loughlin had to clothe the two policemen with old clothes. Then the two men dressed in English uniforms, went to fight for the Irish people. When the Irish failed to take the barracks from the English they set fire to it and they left it a bare skeleton. There is a prisoner there where prisoners were put and left there for a couple of days and then released.
    There is a porch on the south end and there are port holes in the wall through which the policemen in the barrack fired out.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Stokes
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Creeve, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    James Finnerty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    74
    Address
    Creeve, Co. Westmeath