New Ross was the main port where many Irish Emigrants left. This included the families who left on the famine ships. The ship on display is a reconstruction.
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| Dunbrody Famine Ship transported families to Quebec which took 50 days. |
We visited the Dunbrody Famine Ship to learn more about what was happening in Ireland during the potato famine. Many landowners paid the passage fair to get the peasants off their land so that they would not have to feed them when the potato crop was failing due to the fungus brought to Ireland from the bird dropping imported from South America to make ammunition.
Families of 5 to 7 shared on birth and had to remain below deck except for one person who could do on deck once each day to prepare food for the family as long as it was not storming. Cooking was on a wood fire held in an iron grate.
First-class passengers shared a small cabin but had access to the deck and regular meals.
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