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New York, New York: Walk Upon Famine-Ravished Ireland

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Irish Hunger Memorial

Address:
290 Vesey St., New York, NY
Directions:
Irish Hunger Memorial. On the Hudson River side of downtown Manhattan, two blocks west of Ground Zero, where Vesey St. dead-ends at North End Ave.
Admission:
Free
RA Rates:
Worth a Detour
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Walk Upon Famine-Ravished Ireland

An acre of recreated 1840s Ireland, complete with native vegetation and a ruined stone cottage, invites visitor to walk through it in memory of the Irish Potato Famine.

Roadsideamerica.com Report... [01/05/2013]

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Irish Hunger Memorial.

Walk Upon Famine-Ravished Ireland

Interesting art on the banks of the river. Very few people stop to take it in, but it's worth a detour.

[Kwinn, 11/06/2017]

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