Famine Way Ultra

About the race

Join​ us on this epic journey as we follow in the footsteps of the Strokestown tenants, men, women and children who were marched from Roscommon to Dublin in 1847 after they failed to pay their rent. In Dublin, they boarded a ship to Liverpool before journeying to North America on board some of the worst coffin ships of the time. ​ Not all of them made it alive, they became known as the: 'Missing 1490' The 2026 edition will run in reverse Starting in Dublin and Finishing in Strokestown.