Explore Ireland’s Emigrant Trail: Journey of Famine-Era Migrants to North America
Visitors can now leave their stamp on The National Famine Way, a new 165km trail in Ireland that doubles as an interactive history lesson. It traces the footsteps of a group of ill-fated famine emigrants known as the ‘Missing 1490’ who, in 1847, were forced to walk from Roscommon in the west of the country to Dublin in the east at the height of the Great Famine to board ships that would take them to the US and Canada.