30 miles to food..get a runner to tell starving people there is food 30 miles away and some will find a way to get to it and some will die trying. They walked that far and more to the ships that would take them to Liverpool. They walked that far and more to the workhouses. It is said that men ran uphill from Dingle to Tralee for the price of a pouch of tobacco..this is before they were starving.