Hi Margaret, Yes it came to the list and I received a copy. If you look at the list archives on the Rootsweb site you'll see it there: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/IRL-MAYO/ Don Mullan from Concern Ireland (a worldwide charitable aid organisation) published a booklet in the mid-1990s to commemorate the Famine in Mayo and it had maps of the Famine sites in the county including locations of Famine graves. Every May there's a Famine Walk in Mayo (it was held this year on May 18) called the Doolough Famine walk. It's a ten mile walk to commemorate hundreds of people who died on the road in the Doolough Valley overnight on March 30-31, 1849. The people were told they had to be certified by British Government officials as paupers in order to get any food (3 pounds of the dreaded corn meal) but to be certified they had to appear at Delphi Lodge, ten miles away at 7 a.m. They walked overnight to Delphi Lodge in wintry conditions including snow. When they arrived at Delphi Lodge they were refused food and admission to the Workhouse there. They had to then walk the ten mile return journey. Exhausted and starving, hundreds of them died along the roads on the return journey. They had no proper burial. Oceanstrands --- conaught2 <conaught2@charter.net> wrote: > > Please excuse this post, I want to see if it apears > in my inbox. Yesterday I > wrote a long post about the above topic and it did > not appear in my inbox > and wonder if anyone received it on the list. > > Go raibh maith agat, > Margaret (Máiread) > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to IRL-MAYO-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message >