Mapping Famine Roads

[@carmelhegarty9829]

I am from Co.Mayo- I know that my Ancestors SUFFERED absolutely Inhumane conditions. Yet they survived as we are the IRISH and we are hard to break, our ROOTS are strong and our footprints still live in every grain of our tearful past and soil. Thank you for this post. Diá dháoibh Éire agus Céad Béannachtaí. 🙏🇮🇪🙏🇮🇪🙏

[@Irelandunited2012]

And never forget that the English could have prevented this and they used it instead, as an act of war.

[@jamesfitzpatrick6100]

Fascinating stuff and great research. Is information available on such roads county by county ? I am interested in co Cork, particularly near the city.

[@maxiculture]

In 1847 John and Jane Morris together with their two little girls and John's sister Ellen, sailed from Westmeath to South Australia. The elder girl was Letitia my great grandmother. My mother's granny who was 7 when they sailed. Life was hard for them. John died soon after arrival. Jane remarried a widower 3 years later. She died after several years. No family stories mentioned famine.

[@lorrainegriffiths554]

my Mckenna family moved from Monaghan to Fermanagh during the famine.

[@Celtic2Realms]

Very interesting. Is the blue clay in the Fermanagh road the same blue clay used on the Nendrum tidal mill in 620 AD

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

Wicked

[@lorrainegriffiths554]

shocking that starving people had to work for food at that time

[@RevoeLad]

This is the main thing that makes me embarrassed of my country it could have and should have been prevented.

[@tonymcginnity4957]

It was shocking to find out how much food was exported during this time in history.

[@geovanniali6060]

❤

[@Robbie7441]

Why is the famine of 1740 never talked about? Strange that.

[@genevievedolan1288]

Because bad as it was it wasn’t as bad as the 1847 famine that completely decimated the population. But you are right , the other famines should also be better known.

[@mattpotter8725]

As an Englishman with Irish heritage from a couple of the countries shown, I've not far away at all from where they were from, that I'm currently researching I'm just lost for words. I don't think the English ruling class as a whole, that in all honesty haven't changed that much since these times, don't want people to know about what was done by those in power, many who still just don't care about anyone but themselves. I guess the Victorian thought was that people shouldn't just get hand outs, something you still hear today, but making starving people do hard labour is just beyond the pale (no pun intended) and criminal, especially because there was enough food to feed everyone but that food was to be for export and for profit for landowners, whilst people starved, which more people should be aware of today, rather than just being called woke and told nothing to see here.