Shrove Lighthouse
The lighthouse at Shrove, Inishowen, Co Donegal was built during the middle 19th century.
Moville & Cornashamma Bay Co. Donegal 6 Oct 2019 v1
Moville
Moville (Irish: Bun an Phobail) is a coastal town located on the Inishowen Peninsula of County Donegal, Ireland, close to the northern tip of the island of Ireland. It is the first coastal town of the Wild Atlantic Way when starting on the northern end.
The town has a scenic location on the western shore of Lough Foyle, approximately 30 kilometres (20 mi) from Derry, which lies across the border in Northern Ireland. Features include Moville Green, a large seaside park in the Victorian style with bandstands, walking trails, playgrounds, a coastal footpath and views east across the lough to Northern Ireland.
In the second half of the 19th century, Moville was a point of embarkation for emigrants, to Canada and the United States of America. Steamships of the Anchor Line of Glasgow, and others enroute from Glasgow to New York City called at Moville to pick up additional passengers.
Moville Pile Lighthouse
Moville Lighthouse or as its been call ‘The Eiffel Tower of Moville’ was built in 1882 is located about 550 metres offshore from the town, is 13.5 m (44 ft) high and flashes once every 2.5 seconds with a range of four miles. A red sector covers Moville Bank inshore.
This was the largest in a series of 19th century pile lighthouses that helped guide ships down Lough Foyle to Derry, and is one of just three of its kind remaining in Ireland. The other two are located at Dundalk and Cobh.
Responsibility for its operation and maintenance rests with Derry Port and Harbour Commissioners who completed restoration work in 2008. Keepers lived in town, but spent the night in the watch room.
The Fid
The Fid, sited in a prominent position, on the Old Stone Pier in the town of Moville, the impressive structure was designed by local artist Locky Morris.
Inspired by an actual Fid - a conical pin of hardwood used by fishermen for splicing ropes and nets and by sailmakers for opening holes in the sails without tearing the material. The artist came across the hand held tool during his research as part of the long-line fishing basket display in the Inishowen Maritime Museum in Greencastle.
The striking wooden structure was carved from a single oak trunk and is over 30 feet high and over 3 feet wide at its base, the large upright structure symbolises an ancient name of the place itself, Maigh Bhile ‘the plain of the sacred tree’ and represents Moville’s rich fishing and emigration history.
Martello Tower – Magilligan
The Martello tower was built towards the end of the wars in 1812 and it was one of the most northerly of the 74 constructed all around the coasts of Ireland to fire on any invading fleet. The British original plan was to build a fort at Magilligan point but this turned out to be impractical due to the soft ground.
It is one of 74 constructed to fire on any invading fleet and withstand lengthy sieges. It has three floors, and its walls are 9ft thick.
A round dressed sandstone tower (from the Ballyharrigan quarries in Bovevagh), originally housing a 24 pound cannon mounted on the top. It was fastened to a central pivot and moved on a circular rail so that it could point in all directions. The tower has 9ft thick walls with three floors, and was built on top of a spring to ensure fresh water in case of a siege. Below the gun platform were the living quarters and the ground floor was used to store powder and ammunition. A similar tower but with double-gunned exists in Greencastle, on the other side of Lough Foyle.
Cornashamma Bay
Cornashamma Bay, known locally as Sweet Nellie, is a secluded beach and is located on the north coast of Ireland a mile to the southwest of Inishowen Lighthouse on the eastern side of the Inishowen Peninsula. It provided another anchoring opportunity along the eastern Inishowen shoreline. Cornashamma Bay has no facilities and the nearest supplies can be found in the fishing village of Greencastle, the small town of Moville or alternatively the small village of Stroove a few miles north of the village of Greencastle off the R238
Warren Light
Is located at the entrance to Lough Foyle, 2.4 km southwest of the Inishowen or Shove Lighthouse and beside the 12th Tee of Greencastle Golf Club which is just north of Greencastle town. Built in 1861 the Warren Point Lighthouse or Warren Light has a Focal Plane of (a height from the water level to the light) of 9m (30 ft). The brick cylindrical tower is 8m (27ft) in height is painted white with a green trim and the white light flashes every 1.5 seconds. This light is managed by the Derry Port and Harbour Commissioners and site managed by Greencastle Golf Club.
Strove Lighthouse Inishowen Co. Donegal 2015
Strove Lighthouse is located on a beautiful blue flag beach where Lough Foyle meets the wild Atlantic
shroove and Kinnagoe Bay
my little walkabouts on a Bank holiday Monday 7th May to Shroove and Kinnagoe |bay in County Donegal ireland.
Donegal Beaches Part 2: White Stand & Stroove Beach
Part 2 in a series of photographic slideshows on the beaches of Co. Donegal in Ireland. The series starts at the Lough Foyle side of Donegal at Moville and moves counter clockwise round the coast to end in Bundoran.
This episode features White Strand and Stroove Beach, found on either side of Stroove Lighthouse. Great beaches with fantastic rocks, the lighthouse, and the unusual old Stroove Jetty.
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Strove Lighthouse Inishowen Head Donegal
We are heading north along the coast Wild atlantic Way road that skirts the Inishowen peninsula. It certainly is a dangerous rocky coast.
This is Stove lighthouse. Eeven though I could only video it from a distance. I thought it was worthwhiel filming it anyway.
Strove Lighthouse is located on a beautiful blue flag beach where Lough Foyle meets the wild Atlantic in north county Donegal. This shipping lane was used extensively by oceanliners carrying immigrants to America and Australia. The coast along this part of Inishowen is very rocky and rugged resulting in numerous shipwrecks. To prevent further wrecks, on the 1st December, 1837, two lighthouses were built at Dunagree Point in Shrove. They were constructed of stone; the East Tower being 49 feet high and the West Tower 74 feet high. However, in 1870, the West Tower had 25 feet added to it bringing it to a height of 99 feet. The lamps were originally oil-powered but in 1961, the oil light was replaced by an electric one in the West Tower and the East Tower was discontinued. The new light was able to create an arc of 180 degrees. The lighthouse was originally manned by three keepers, but with the advent of modern technology, the light became automatically-controlled and now only one caretaker remains in the attached quarters.
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Dunree Lighthouse, Dunree Head Buncrana Donegal
During 1876 an Inspecting Committee surveyed the Fort Dunree site and reported that the Fort at Dunree was not a suitable position for the new lighthouse but suggested a position on higher ground to the north, in which case the tower would not have to be more than one storey high. Its present location was chosen.
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Foyle paddlers - Moville to Shroove - 28 January 2017
Foyle Paddlers run from Moville Pier to Shroove Beach, Co. Donegal
Moville Lighthouse Swim 2012
Moville Lighthouse Swim 2012 video (21.July.2012).
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Moville to Portstewart 1st swim since 1929
Mother-of-two Heather Clatworthy, 34, emerged from the Atlantic as only the second ever person to traverse the waves between the idyllic Stroove beach on Co Donegal's Inishowen peninsula and the seaside resort of Portstewart in Co Londonderry, Northern Ireland. 27 July 2016.
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THE ALTAR IN MOVILLE
A typical story of Emigration from Ireland in the late 1800s
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Snowy Stroove Beach Inishowen Head/Dunagree Pt Donegal
A few days ago we drove north past Greencastle on the Inishowen peninsula, Co Donegal and arrived at Dunagree Point and Stroove Beach.
The view was magic but it was very cold with snow on the ground. This of course is a section of the Wild Atlantc Way and it ceratinly lived up to it's name.
This shoreline is associated with St Colmcille. He sailed for here to Iona. this was 562 AD and he set out to bring Christianity to the Scots.
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The Inishowen Peninsula in the northeast of Co. Donegal is perhaps the greatest overlooked treasure of the Irish landscape. Virtually every aspect of the landscape is superb -- the beaches especially Kinnego Bay, Culdaff.Inishowen has everything you could possibly want for your Irish Holidays.
Shrove School Reunion Patrick McCartney
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Fishing - Kinnagoe Bay, Inishowen, Co. Donegal 26 Mar 2017 v2
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Kinnagoe Bay is known as being the location of the wreck of the Armada ship ‘La Trinidad Valencera’. About 40 lives were lost when she sank on 16 September 1588.
Donegal Beaches Part 1: Moville & Greencastle
Part 1 in a series of photographic slideshows on the beaches of Co. Donegal in Ireland. The series starts at the Lough Foyle side of Donegal in Moville, and moves counter clockwise round the coast to end in Bundoran.
This episode features Moville and Greencastle on the Lough Foyle side of the Inishowen Peninsula.