School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)
- Location:
- Ballyfin, Co. Laois
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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- Daddy said that he knew one story about the famine.A man came into a mill which was called Lalor's mills. A man came in and put his hand where the meal was coming out. He got a handful of meal and ate it. The people who were working in the mill asked him was he hungry?
The man took meal a lot of times.
"I did not get a to eat for the last three or four days" said he.
When the men that was working in the mill gave him a few stones of meal.
