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Gallery
  Dec 2006 - See what Christmas is like at John and Martha Steele's house. Click Here
 
History
  Dec 2006 - St. Machar's Church, Carved Head and The Wee House of Malin Read More
 
Gallery
  Dec 2006 - We have started our Christmas page. We would like to see some of your Christmas photographs.Read More
 
Townlands
  Dec 2006 - We have added to our Townlands Section with the help of "The Heritage of Inishowen" by Mabel R. Colhoun. Read More
 
History
  Dec 2006 - Read about the souterrain in Stroove from "The Heritage of Inishowen" By Mabel R. Colhoun in our History Section. Read More
 
History
  Nov 2006 - A North Inis Eoghain Homestead in 1930. Read More
 
What's On
  Nov 2006 - Christmas Message from An Garda Siochanna Moville. Read More
 
History
  Nov 2006 - Donegal and the Spanish Civil War. Paddy Roe McLaughlin, Lecamey, was a volunteer.
Read More
 
News
  Nov 2006 -Ballybrack Residents Group are keeping us informed on updates regarding the latest on Greencastle Planning Applications, Read More
 
Gallery
  Nov 2006 - We have added a page on the Gallery of the High Cross and Pillars at Carndonagh. Read More
 
History
  Nov 2006 - We have added The High Cross and Pillars of Carndonagh to our History Section. Read More
 
History
  Nov 2006 - We have added The Marigold Stone Slab situated at the Church of Ireland Carndonagh.
Read More
 
Mythology
  Nov 2006 - The Banshee is alive and well and living in the West of Ireland. Read More
 
Gallery
  Oct 2006 - Halloween 2006 has been added to the Gallery. Click Here
 
Moville Iowa
  Oct 2006 - Jackie Stender, City Clerk of Moville Iowa, has been in touch with me recently. Have a look at our namesake town. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Sept 2006 - A Third page of old Black and White photographs have been added to the Gallery. Have a look and see if you can recognise anyone, and if their names are not included, perhaps you would let me know.
 
Gallery
  Sept 2006 - We have added two new pages to the Gallery sent in by Ian McLaughlin and
Stephen McLaughlin, taken at the Moville Raft Race 2006.
 
What's On
  Sept 2006 - What's On has had a facelift to match the Gallery. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Sept 2006 - The Gallery has been revamped, let me know what you think of it. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Aug 2006 - Photographs of Summer Gathering 2006 taken by Jimmy McLaughlin Greencastle.
Click Here
 
News
  July 2006 - A Fisherman's Tale, a series about the local fishing industry, will be aired on Inishowen Community Radio over the next few weeks. Read More
 
Folklore
  July 2006 - Celtic Moon Months will take you back to the days of enchantment when the moon and trees brought magic into everyone's life. Read More
 
News
  June 2006 - To Read about and see photograph of Moville Playground under construction, which will be completed 26th July 2006, Click Here
 
Gallery
  June 2006 - Photographs of the Tall Ships and Sailing Ships taken at the Festival of the Sea by Jimmy McLaughlin, Greencastle. Click Here
 
Search and Rescue Games
  May 2006 - Saturday 20th May, The Irish Coast guard will compete with HM Coastguard Northern Ireland in Search and Rescue Games. To read more Click Here
 
Submit Your Business Details
  May 2006 - Read about the benefits of being listed in our Business Directory. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Apr 2006 - New page on the Gallery. Photographs sent in by Michael Reynolds. Click Here
 
350 Visitors a day
  Mar 2006 - The Moville Inishowen website has been up and running since January 2004. In that time the staff at North East Inishowen Company have worked hard to promote the site locally and internationally. The site now enjoys over 350 unique visitors per day and emails are received from around the world. Help us to promote the site by linking to us or simply telling your friends!
 
Gallery
  Mar 2006 - St. Patrick's Day photographs taken by Eileen Devlin Portrush. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Mar 2006 - St. Patrick's Day 2006. As usual Moville had a great turn out for their parade. Click Here
 
History
  Mar 2006 - Read about Field Marshall Montgomery's achievements in the two world wars as featured in The Inish Times 1st March 2006. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Feb 2006 - We have added a page of photographs of Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle taken by Gerard Callaghan . Click Here
 
News
  Feb 2006 - Would like to see 200 year old maps of Donegal, and many more historical interests? then
Click Here
 
News
  Jan 2006 - Redcastle Photographer, Ben Elves' picture "The Weather is A Good Storyteller" has been nominated for Digital Media award. To see his picture Click Here
 
Gallery
  Jan 2006 - I have put a page of photographs which Ken Murphy has taken and kindly let me have to display in our Gallery. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Jan 2006 - Over the Christmas Holidays, I was given some old postcards, which I have added to that page. To view them Click Here
 
Gallery
  Dec 2005 - We have added our Second Page for Christmas. Click Here You can see more photographs on our news item Parish Christmas Party. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Nov 2005 - We have added our second page for Halloween. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Nov 2005 - A page for People around Inishowen has been included. We would like to keep adding to this one, so if you have any suitable photographs please let us have them. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Oct 2005 - We have added a page of photographs from Sean Beattie's Book 'Donegal in Old Photographs.' Click Here
 
History Section
  Sept 2005 - Read about Hedge Schools of Inishowen in our History Section. Click Here
 
History Section
  Sept 2005 - We have added more history items on Inishowen in the Ice Age and Geology of Inishowen taken from "Twix Foyle and Swilly". Click Here
 
Folklore Section
  Aug 2005 - We have added a new piece to the Folklore Section - The Eight Sabbats. Hope you find it interesting. I enjoyed researching this item very much, and I hope it will add a bit of magic to all our viewers worlds, not just the young people. Click Here
 
Publications
  Aug 2005 - Golden Days in Donegal by Stephen Joyce. Part of the proceeds of this book will be donated to dyslexic children in Inishowen. Details on where to buy this book Click Here
   
News Section
  July 2005 - The Official Opening of Carrowmena Football Club took place Sunday 10th July. To see photographs of the event Click Here
 
History Section
  June 2005 - We have added more interesting facts in our History Section - this time about Culdaff.
Click Here
 
Over 70 Businesses listed
 

June 2005 - Businesses in Moville town and surrounding area are enjoying the benefits of being listed on the Moville Inishowen website. Already over 70 businesses are listed and locals as well as tourists can find out anything from accommodation to health treatments to milk deliveries in the local area.

So why not get listed today - call us or apply online <Submit Your Business Details>

 
Gallery
  May 2005 - We have added a new first page to the gallery. Click Here
 
Gallery
  May 2005 - We have added another page of black and white photographs to the Gallery. Click Here
 
History
  May 2005 - Have you heard about Bog Butter? - thought to be in Irish Bogs for thousands of years. For our history section Click Here
 
Folklore
  May 2005 - We have added more items to the Folklore section on superstitions. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Apr 2005 - We have added a new page to the gallery on Cooley an early ecclesiastical site on the outskirts of Moville. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Apr 2005 - We have added a new page to the Football Section. Click here
 
News
  Mar 2005 - The news section is updated monthly. This month we have included prize winners for the St Patrick's Day Parade and photographs of St Francis Pipe Band, Glasgow. Click Here
 
Gallery
  Mar 2005 - St Patrick's Day Photographs have been added to the Gallery. Click Here
 
History
  Mar 2005 - A short story written by Stephen Joyce called 'Music Over Moville' about his childhood memories of Inishowen has been added to Literature Click here
 
History
  Feb 2005 - Various items have been added to history section Click here taken from The Book of Inishowen - Shown in Publications Click here
 
Townlands
  Feb 2005 - Meanings of the townland names have been supplied by Sean Beattie in consultation with, Mr Paddy Doherty and Mr John Grant, Irish Department Carndonagh Community School. Click here
 
Gallery
  Feb 2005 - We have been rearranging the Gallery Section to make it easier to navigate and would remind you to refresh your browsers so that you are not looking at cached pages. Click here
 
New Addition to History Section - Reminiscence
  Jan 2005 - We have added a further section to History called Reminiscence - Memories of some of our Senior Citizens. Click here
 
New Page in Gallery
  Dec 2005 - We have added a Christmas page to the Gallery. Click here
 
New addition to History Section - Famous People
  Dec 2004 - We have added Hazel McIntyre to our famous people connected to Inishowen. Click here
   
New History Section featuring Folk Lore
  Nov 2004 - We have added a new section to the History pages about Folklore, and intend to add more. Hope you enjoy it! Click here
   
New Page in Gallery section
  Oct 2004 - We have added a Halloween page to the gallery. Hope you enjoy it. Gallery
   
New History Section Mythology
  Oct 2004 - We have added a further section to the History pages on Local Mythology Click here
   
New History section featured Famous Local People
  Sept 2004 - We've added a new section to the History pages on this site featured some famous people who have connections with Inishowen. Read about Brian Friel, John Hume, Fr John Colgan and more. Click here
   
New Maps of townlands and town centre added
  July 2004 - We have now added the map of Moville Townlands to the site with links to each townlad name. But we need your help in getting more information on the history of each area. Contact Us now if you know anything extra about each of the townlands e.g. how they got their name or some notable historical event. We have also added a map of the town centre suitable for tourists.
   
New Pages in Gallery section
  July 2004 - We have divided the gallery into three sections. Coloured Photos, Black and White Photos and Old Post Cards. If you know any names or dates which we could add please get in touch with us.
Gallery
   
New pages in History section
  June 2004 - We've added new pages to the Moville Heritage section of the site with some history notes on St. Brigid's Well - Balleighan and Portkill - Greencastle
   
64 Businesses Listed
 

June 2004 - Businesses in Moville town and surrounding area are enjoying the benefits of being listed on the Moville Inishowen website. Already 64 businesses are listed and locals as well as tourists can find out anything from accommodation to health treatments to milk deliveries in the local area!

So why not get listed today - call us or apply online <Submit Your Business Details>

   
100 Visitors a day
  June 2004 - The Moville Inishowen website has been up and running since January 2004. In that time the staff at North East Inishowen Company have worked hard to promote the site locally and internationally. The site now enjoys over 100 unique visitors per day and emails are received from around the world particularly from the United States. Help us to promote the site by linking to us or simply telling your friends!

 

 

 

 

 

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