National famine walk Ireland 165 kms

[MickMac]

Just booked my passport and package for Irish heritage trust national famine walk 165 kms.

Passport is stamped along route were 271 families1490 men, women, and children left the small village of Strokestown Co. Roscommon bound for Canada many perished on the "coffin" ships few came back.
Looks a great walk.

 

[wayfarer]

Just booked my passport and package for Irish heritage trust national famine walk 165 kms.

Passport is stamped along route were 271 families1490 men, women, and children left the small village of Strokestown Co. Roscommon bound for Canada many perished on the "coffin" ships few came back.
Looks a great walk.
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Any idea when you will tackle it Mick?

 

[stratophile]

I walked the Wicklow Way (which I really enjoyed) just before Covid shut everything down. I had been debating between the WW and the FW. The FW looks very nice – definitely on my shortlist. When will you be walking it? And, just out of curiousity, what made you choose it?

 

[Former member 49149]

Just booked my passport and package for Irish heritage trust national famine walk 165 kms.

Passport is stamped along route were 271 families1490 men, women, and children left the small village of Strokestown Co. Roscommon bound for Canada many perished on the "coffin" ships few came back.
Looks a great walk.
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I will be following you! I tried to work out accommodation a couple of years ago, but it defeated me and I walked the Barrow Way instead. I sometimes take the train out from Connolly to points along the way and walk or cycle home.

 

[wayfarer]

I walked the Wicklow Way (which I really enjoyed) just before Covid shut everything down. I had been debating between the WW and the FW. The FW looks very nice – definitely on my shortlist. When will you be walking it? And, just out of curiousity, what made you choose it?

Not wishing to hijack this thread but if you like long distance hikes you should look at The Ireland Way, 1000 + km.

 

[MickMac]

I hope to walk in spring 2021 with my daughter she's pregnant so have to wait.
Walking with her three other kids Laoidheach, Nóinín, and Siomha and any new addition, that comes along, please god.
You can contact, Aidan Irish heritage trust Strokestown Park House, 10 euro for pack it gives you cut price entries and free snacks along route, and at Strokestown Park House.

 

[PilgrimJames]

I hope to walk in spring 2021 with my daughter she's pregnant so have to wait.
Walking with her three other kids Laoidheach, Nóinín, and Siomha and any new addition, that comes along, please god.
You can contact, Aidan Irish heritage trust Strokestown Park House, 10 euro for pack it gives you cut price entries and free snacks along route, and at Strokestown Park House.

Thanks Mick. Worth exploring as we won't be wandering too far from Ireland for some time. Maybe a 2021 project

 

[catheriam]

I hope to walk in spring 2021 with my daughter she's pregnant so have to wait.
Walking with her three other kids Laoidheach, Nóinín, and Siomha and any new addition, that comes along, please god.
You can contact, Aidan Irish heritage trust Strokestown Park House, 10 euro for pack it gives you cut price entries and free snacks along route, and at Strokestown Park House.

Mick, I thought to myself "As best I know, I am Polish and LIthuanian by ancestry; although taught by Irish nuns (!!), I've not a drop of Irish blood in me, save the occasional Guinness." However, something about the Irish Famine Walk seized my soul and yanked me down a rabbit hole of discovery, information and the horror and misery which occasions this walk ... and not a whole lot about the "how" to do it? It's only a week long and surely unwise to tie myself in knots about, preparation wise (ice ax likely unnecessary, right?) but my Dad intoned "forewarned is forearmed" into this three daughters enough to always ask first. Nicely. Who knows when a Missouri grandmother can fly the pond to Dublin anyway? May 2021 has great ring to it, as my mid-April 2021 and fourth Camino along Northern Routes into Galicia would likely be complete. The 10th ring of Dante's Hell is planning in a pandemic!

 

[MickMac]

Catheriam.

The Irish famine in mid 19th century is burnt deeply into the Irish psyche.The Strokestown route takes you through some beautiful country landscape, Towns and villages, and urban areas and ends on the famine memorial on Dublin quays.

The Irish Famine occurred when over 1million people died, initially started by failure of the potato crop and the English corn laws which meant plentiful food supply was under control of London Parliament and was sent from Ireland to London .

Many people took the boat to America, Canada, and beyond.
Many died on the way the Irish population fell from 8 Million to 4 Million in the space of a few years.
There is various routes around Ireland were the people walked to Dublin and caught the coffin ships to Liverpool and onto the Americas . Never to return.

It puts the current pandemic into perspective you can check out other routes by logging onto Irish Heritage Trust.

 

[catheriam]

Catheriam.

The Irish famine in mid 19th century is burnt deeply into the Irish psyche.The Strokestown route takes you through some beautiful country landscape, Towns and villages, and urban areas and ends on the famine memorial on Dublin quays.

The Irish Famine occurred when over 1million people died, initially started by failure of the potato crop and the English corn laws which meant plentiful food supply was under control of London Parliament and was sent from Ireland to London .

Many people took the boat to America, Canada, and beyond.
Many died on the way the Irish population fell from 8 Million to 4 Million in the space of a few years.
There is various routes around Ireland were the people walked to Dublin and caught the coffin ships to Liverpool and onto the Americas . Never to return.

It puts the current pandemic into perspective you can check out other routes by logging onto Irish Heritage Trust.

Thank you for your reply and it is with great respect for the deep sorrow Ireland lost their men, women and children in the travel of those dreadful famines. To participate in a walk, quite literally, in their shoes, is one of my dearest wishes for 2021.

 

[VictorE]

Just booked my passport and package for Irish heritage trust national famine walk 165 kms.

Passport is stamped along route were 271 families1490 men, women, and children left the small village of Strokestown Co. Roscommon bound for Canada many perished on the "coffin" ships few came back.
Looks a great walk.
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I want to do this walk Please help

 

[MickMac]

Victor.
List of contacts for numerous historical famine walks around the Island of Ireland can be got from:

National Famine Way – National Famine Way

nationalfamineway.ie

 

[MickMac]

If you get a chance watch "Black 47" atmospheric gritty Irish film dealing with a fictional incident during Irish famine.
Filmed on location in Kidare and Wicklow.

 

[cosan]

Just booked my passport and package for Irish heritage trust national famine walk 165 kms.

Passport is stamped along route were 271 families1490 men, women, and children left the small village of Strokestown Co. Roscommon bound for Canada many perished on the "coffin" ships few came back.
Looks a great walk.
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I did this walk last July . It was very beautiful, mostly along quiet canal paths. Be blessed.

 

[Icacos]

If you get a chance watch "Black 47" atmospheric gritty Irish film dealing with a fictional incident during Irish famine.
Filmed on location in Kidare and Wicklow.

Thank you very much for this. After some searching I finally found and rented this from Google Play; it was well worth the search.
(Tip to would-be renters: pay the extra for the HD version; I wish I had.)

 

[MickMac]

Icacos.
Keep an eye out for Stephan Rea Oscar nominated actor, great Irish actor great person.
Enjoy.