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Portmarnock · Co. Dublin

Where Aviation Pioneers Launched Dreams Across the Atlantic

August 18th, 1932 witnessed British pilot Jim Mollison's historic takeoff from Portmarnock beach in his de Havilland Puss Moth, completing the first solo westbound transatlantic flight to Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick, establishing this coastal paradise as the launching point…

Portmarnock is a small place in County Dublin. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.