School: Cill an Daingin, Nenagh (roll number 6658)
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó hOgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0534, Page 120
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- (continued from previous page)they had only small gardens, and they were occupied with blighted potatoes.
The people used eat porridge made from meal.
There is a story told about the famine. There was a very old man living in a small little house in Lahorna. He was very rich, and was supposed to have a machine for grinding corn into flour. He used make bread out of the bread.
One day he said he would make a basket full of bread for all the children around him. When he had it made he called all the children together and said there was a loaf of bread for each one of them in the basket. He had one of the loafs made smaller than the other so that the last one was like a bun.
All the children were snapping for the bread except one little girl, she took her time, and when she(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Mc Loughney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughourna, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Pat Mc Loughney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughourna, Co. Tipperary
