The Murrisk Millennium Peace Park is a five-acre park located north of the R335 road overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the village of Murrisk, County Mayo, Ireland at the foot of Croagh Patrick mounta
The National Famine Memorial within the park
A view of Croagh Patrick through the monument
A sign at the entrance to the memorial
Doolough Tragedy
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The Doolough Tragedy was an event that took place during the Great Irish Famine close to Doo Lough in southwest County Mayo. At least seven starving people died after being required to walk a long dis
Murrisk Millennium Peace Park
…of the population of Connaught dying in those terrible years." Murrisk is also situated close to the Doo Lough valley, which witnessed the famine-era Doolough Tragedy. Artist John Behan was commissioned by the Government to create a sculpture that would encompass the magnitude of the suffering and loss endured by the…
Memorial to the victims in Doolough valley
Doolough Pass