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U.S. Ambassador Claire Cronin’s visit to Carrowmenagh

Carrowmenagh,

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The new American Ambassador to Ireland went back to her roots in Co Donegal today when she visited the village where her grandfather had emigrated from in 1912.
It was Ambassador Claire Cronin's first visit to Carrowmenagh in Inishowen where her grandfather Hugh McLaughlin was born in 1886.

Hugh McLaughlin (third from the right) was born in Carrowmenagh in 1886

Hugh McLaughlin (third from the right) was born in Carrowmenagh in 1886