A new 14 page National Famine Way passport has been officially launched today to detail the route and allow people to record their passage on the journey from Roscommon to Dublin.
The Famine Way is a 167 kilometre walk which connects the Famine Museum in Strokestown to the Famine memorial on Custom House Quay in Dublin.
Most of the walk is along the canal and it commemorates the journey of 1,490 famine emigrants who walked form Strokestown Park to ships in Dublin in 1847 at the height of the Famine.
In recent years over 30 pairs of 19th century style children's shoes were placed along the route in the form of bronze sculptures.
Caroilin Callery from the Famine Museum in Strokestown says the new passport is just one of many more developments planned for the route in the coming years aimed at getting more and more people interested in the history.
