School: Loughanvally (roll number 8363)
- Location:
- Loughanavally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs. O'Connor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 390
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Historical Tradition (continued)
“Long ago in the year 1846 and 1847 there was a big famine....”
(continued from previous page)people in Ireland. A lot of people went to the poor houses and there was no room for them and the English Government sent them over a little indian meal.
Cromwells army passed through our district in 1649 and he knocked down Conra and Taughboyne church. Cromwell was hanged by his own army in England.
- Two lords one time held a priest captive in the cave in Lockerstown. They were walking along the road and were planning how they would kill him. A rebel was hiding behind the ditch and heard them. He fired a shot and it hit both of them in the stomach and they died. Then he set the priest free.
- Collector
- C. Scally
