Terraced Houses below 19th Century St Colman's Cathedral. Cobh (formerly Queenstown) in County Cork, Ireland was a major famine emigration point.
The Irish population had exploded in the first half of the nineteenth century, reaching about million by 1845 without any accompanying economic improvement potato blight first appeared. The fungus which caused blight was unknown to the scientists of the day so no remedy was possible. The result was that millions died and millions emigrated to form the Irish diaspora; many of those who to the USA and other overseas locations, did so through Cobh, then called Queenstown. Cobh was also the last port of call for the Titanic before it sank and the burial place for many of the victims of the Lucitania.
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Location: St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh, Great Island, County Cork, Ireland
Photo credit: © George Munday / Alamy / Afripics
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