More than 30 pairs of bronze replica children’s shoes mark the route.
Young people from Ireland and Czechia are completing a 165km journey through the Midlands to commemorate those who travelled the famine walkway almost 180 years ago.
Participants from Gaisce and The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Czech Republic Foundation have been walking from the National Famine Museum in Roscommon through Longford, Westmeath, Meath and Kildare before finishing in Dublin at the EPIC Museum in Dublin today.
In May 1847, 1,400 famine-stricken tenants walked from Strokestown to Dublin before emigrating to Canada through Liverpool.
More than 30 pairs of bronze replica children’s shoes mark the route, in memory the children who made the journey with their families.
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