Moville, Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal

On the top is a beautiful place in Inishowen, Moville. This is the place my great-grandfather and great aunts, and uncles left from Ireland. I know for sure that Michael and his brother John and their cousin Michael McLoughlin left from here. The picture above is the actual pier they left from. Moville is a shallow water port, so back in those days 1870 the ships if they could do it would come all the way to the pier to pick up people, if they couldn't they would be rowed out further in the ocean to be picked up for a hazardous 5 week trip to the United States and Castle Gardens where they would debark from. The picture on the bottom right is what you see when you come around the turn heading for Moville. It must have been very hard to leave such a beautiful place.

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