Ireland-Mayo County

Doo Lugh, celebrated by salmon anglers, on the foreground the monument remembering the Doolough Tragedy that took place during the Great Irish Famine on 1849. The people in receipt of outdoor relief was instructed to appear at Delphi Lodge at 07:00 the following morning if they wished to continue receiving relief. For much of the night and day hundreds of starving people had to undertake an extremely fatiguing journey, in very bad weather and shortly afterwards the bodies of seven people, including women and children,were discovered on the roadside between Delphi and Louisburgh.

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Doo Lugh, celebrated by salmon anglers, on the foreground the monument remembering the Doolough Tragedy that took place during the Great Irish Famine on 1849. The people in receipt of outdoor relief was instructed to appear at Delphi Lodge at 07:00 the following morning if they wished to continue receiving relief. For much of the night and day hundreds of starving people had to undertake an extremely fatiguing journey, in very bad weather and shortly afterwards the bodies of seven people, including women and children,were discovered on the roadside between Delphi and Louisburgh.