Statue of Annie Moore and her brothers. Annie Moore was the first person to be admitted to the
United States through the new immigration centre at Ellis Island, New York, on 1st January 1892.
Between 1848 and 1950, almost 6 million people emigrated from Ireland, 2˝ million of them from Cobh.
Cobh also played a part in the transportation of convicts; between 1791 and 1853, 40,000 convicts
were sent to Australian penal colonies in notorious “coffin ships”.