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Salvage Vessel "LIFELINE"118 viewsThe Salvage vessel Lifeline was stationed in Castletownbere in the 1950's
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The ruins of Dunboy Castle. Destroyed in 1602118 viewsFormer Stronghold of Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beare. Not to be confused with nearby Puxley Mansion which is at present being rebuilt as the 5star ‘Dunboy Castle Hotel’
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Murphys (Bere Island) Ferry116 views
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Mary C Sullivan114 viewsMary C Sullivan b Beara apx 1862. Photo taken about 1930 in Minturn, Eagle, Colorado during the depression. It is said she had locks on everything, cupboards, well and so on. She and John were very generous to transient men looking for work but she controlled what went where. Notice the bulge in her pocket from keys.
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112 viewsCastletownbere Regatta. August 2008
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'Castletown Berehaven' Post Card circa 1908111 views
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Beyond the Land of Liberty' Emigrants on Mid-Ocean Post Card circa 1906111 views
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Castletownbere111 viewsTrawlers at the quay
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Patrick Henry Harrington's Graniteville home and Quarries in 1886 engraving110 viewsPHH's house and granite quarries on Snake Meadow Hill. His father, Beara emmigrant Patrick was a stonecutter here.
These quarries have furnished granite for (among others) in 1810 the Boston Court-house; in 1814 the New South Church; and about the same time the Congregational house on Beacon street; the old Parkman house on Bowdoin square; University hall in Cambridge; in 1818-19 the first stone block in the city, on Brattle street;” the columns for Quincy Market in Boston; the First National Bank of Boston; part of the Albany State Capitol; about twenty stories of the Bankers’ Trust Company building in New York City; the Camden Court House in New Jersey; the Presbyterian church in Savannah, Georgia; the base and approaches to the post office at New Orleans; the Frick mansion, and many other residences on the North Shore; the lower story of the new wings of the State House in Boston; many miles of curbing and paving for New England towns and cities; the Forsyth Dental Infirmary in Boston; the dam across the Merrimack River in Lawrence, MA; and the State Prison in Concord (1870-1880's).
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Cromwell's Bridge. Glengarriff109 views
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USS The Sullivans (DDG 68)109 viewsMoored in Berehaven, the ‘Sullivans’ on Saturday, 30th August 2003, visiting to witness the unveiling of a memorial to the five O'Sullivan brothers who were lost at sea whilst serving with the US in the 2nd World War at their great grandparents homeplace in Trafrask, Adrigole.
Photo courtesy ‘Marine Times’
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HMS 'DEVONSHIRE"109 viewsIn late October 1941 Devonshire was in the South Atlantic, patrolling between Freetown and Simonstown, when trawlers of the South African Defence Force sighted a convoy of five French merchant ships, escorted by the French sloop D’Iberville, which was en route from vichy-held Madagascar into the South Atlantic and steaming well south of Cope Town. Devonshire, which was at Simonstown, was ordered to intercept and on 1st November she sailed south. Next day she rendezvoused with Colombo and the armed merchant cruiser Carthage, and they were later joined by Carnarvon Castle. The French convoy w
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'Bere Island Village' Post Card circa 1904 108 views
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'Glengarriff Harbour' and 'Otter Rock Glengarriff'107 views
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Derreen 6107 viewsDerreen Gardens. Lauragh, Co Kerry
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Crew of Irish Lights Tender "NABRO"107 viewsFrom L to R. James Moran, Master. Patsy Seir, Mate. Joe Driscoll, AB. Tommy Driscoll, AB. Paddy Connolly, Engineer. Dan Driscoll, AB also known as Dan the Nabro.
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