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708 Favorite Tours in Ireland; Celtic Middle Earth; Ireland’s South Coast

Travel with Rick Steves

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The Irish Famine Ship Cove, Ireland

The Gini Johnston was a cargo ship meant to carry only 40 people. Mortality rates of board ships like these were around 30%. Toilets were non-existent on the original. Estimates are that 2.5 million Irish sailed out of Cove in less than a decade.

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