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The Pilot Boat At Carlingford - Irish Working Landscape Scenery Autumn


published on 16 October 2020 549 -

Found on YouTube. Created by "Irelandscapes".
This is Paddy Rooney, Coxswain of the Carlingford Pilot Boat, on the lough which separates County Down and County Louth. The boat operates out of a small jetty at Greencastle - so called after it's Norman castle near the shore and not far from the town of Rostrevor with it's beautiful park and colourful streets. In this film Paddy and his crew rendezvoused with a cargo ship at Greenore Port - which is also a uniquely preserved 1800's railway village .
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