Moville

Moville (Magh Bhille or Bun an Phobail in Irish) is a town in County Donegal close to the northern tip of Ireland. The town enjoys a scenic location on the western shore of Lough Foyle, about 30 km from Derry, which lies across the border in Northern Ireland. Its most attractive feature is its handsome Green, a large seaside park featuring bandstands, walking trails, playgrounds and sweeping views east across the waters of the lough to Northern Ireland. As a result of this pleasant location and the proximity of several marvellous beaches, Moville receives many visitors and daytrippers in the summer months.

 

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Points of Interest

 

» In the second half of the 19th century, Moville was a significant point of embarkation for many travellers, especially emigrants, to Canada and the United States of America. Steamships of the Anchor Line, of Glasgow, and others en-route from Glasgow to New York City regularly called at Moville to pick up additional passengers. Today, the town receives little maritime traffic; it retains its small fishing harbour, but the important commercial fishing port at Greencastle lies only a few miles away.

 

» An annual Regatta is held at Moville every year in August, and has done so since early in the 19th century. In older times the one-man punt was popular, whereas nowadays the race of the home-made rafts brings competitors from many counties and large spectator crowds.

 

» As well as being a tourist resort with a fine beach, it is an important commercial fishing port and has the only purpose-designed Fishery Training Centre in Ireland and Britain. Moville is also Donegal's best known sea angling centre. Not far from here at Kinnego Bay lie the remains of "La Trinidad Valenceria", the bigeest ship of the Spanish

Armada. A commemrative plaque has been rerected at the roadside.

 

» Cooley Corss and Skull House just outside Moville (Off Derry Road) is the site of an ancient monastery.