The National Famine Way walking trail takes you on an unforgettable and thought-provoking experience. Follow in the footsteps of the 1,490 tenants evicted from Denis Mahon’s Estate at Strokestown, Co. Roscommon in 1847, also known as ‘black 47’, one of the worst years of suffering during the Great Irish Famine. You can now follow in the footsteps of the missing 1,490 and learn their stories.

The trailhead is the National Famine Museum in Stokestown, Co. Roscommon and follows quiet country roads to Clondra, Co Longford before joining the Royal Canal Greenway to Dublin and EPIC, The Irish Emigration Museum and the Replica Famine Ship Jeanie Johnston. Adding to this thought-provoking trail are thirty-one interactive 19th-century children’s shoe sculptures telling the stories of the tenants forced to emigrate to Canada.