Doo Lough Pass,
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Glencullin Lough and Doo Lough (Black Lake Irish: Duloch) photographed
from the Dhulough Pass Road. The Irish Potato Famine lasted from
1845 to 1849 and saw Ireland's population halve due to deaths
and emigration. In March 1847, a large number of starving people
gathered in Louisburgh to seek assistance from the relieving
officer. He told them that they would have to apply to the Board
of Guardians who were to meet next day at Delphi Lodge. This
was ten miles away across some of the most remote and mountainous
countryside in Ireland. They spent the night in the open, and
started to walk to Delphi the following day. When they got there,
the Board of Guardians were at lunch and could not be disturbed.
When they finally did meet with them, the people were refused
help. That day it rained and snowed and there was a piercing
wind. On the return journey to Lousier, over 100 of the starving
were blown into Doolough by the fierce wind where they died.
The memorial commemorates those who died at this point. The inscription
reads: TO COMMEMORATE THE HUNGRY POOR WHO WALKED HERE IN 1849
AND WALK THE THIRD WORLD TODAY FREEDOM FOR SOUTH AFRICA 1994,
HOW CAN MEN FEEL THEMSELVES HONOURED BY THE HUMILIATION OF THEIR
FELLOW BEINGS. MAHATMA GANDHI IN SOUTH AFRICA |
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