One of the excuses was the bad roads and that the food was impossible to transport to the starving people, this excuse was laid to rest when you see the vast amounts of food transported along these roads to the many ports, all of the food on its way to the fill the coffers of the absentee landlords in Britain.

Trevelyan`s great work in India, this wasn`t much compensation for the dead and starving he left behind in Ireland, this religious fanatic will be forever remembered in Ireland when he deemed the potato famine to be, the will of the Lord, and of course India was a much more fertile area for plunder than Ireland.