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East End. Bere Island121 views
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Beara Bay Hotel120 viewsThe hotel seen from Dinish Island
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Jimmy Nano and Maggie Moriarty, Foildarrig120 viewsJimmy Nano and Maggie Moriarty, Foildarrig
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Puxley Mansion, Castletownbere. 119 viewsAt present being rebuilt as a 5star Hotel to be known as the ‘Dunboy Castle Hotel’ (Photo taken June 2010)
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Antique map of Beara/County Cork 118 views
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Lawrence's Cove. East End, Bere Island 118 views
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Salvage Vessel "LIFELINE"118 viewsThe Salvage vessel Lifeline was stationed in Castletownbere in the 1950's
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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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