School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)
- Location:
- Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Garland
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- (continued from previous page)and the man who owns the field will not cut a bush or let anyone else cut a bush in this fort, because Mass was celebrated there.On one occasion when the priest was offering up Mass here the English soldiers saw them and when the people saw the soldiers coming towards them, they ran away, but the priest and the little boy who was serving Mass remained behind because the priest was at the Consecration, and could not move. When the "Redcoats" came up to the place where this priest and the little boy were, the soldiers did not punish them when they saw that the priest was so brave. It was very dangerous to be saying Mass there in those days because there were priest hunters whose names were Jessops living about a quarter of a mile from the village of Castletown.
- Collector
- Maureen Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shurock, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Patrick Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Shurock, Co. Westmeath
