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The 'Eccles Hotel'. Glengarriff. 1905585 views
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Family Home of Tim Harrington M.P.585 views
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USS Amabala. Fuelling Supply Tanker582 viewsStationed at Berehaven from 17th Sept 1918 to Dec 1st 1919 she was the fuel supply ship for the following Vessels stationed at Berehaven: - Nevada (Battleship No. 36, Oklahoma (Battleship No. 37), Utah (Battleship No. 31), Allen (Destroyer No. 66), Beale (Destroyer No. 40) Conyngham (Destroyer No. 58), (Stevens (Destroyer No. 86) and Terry (Destroyer No. 25)
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Christmas in Crooha Lower (West), Adrigole. 1989582 viewsJohn Kinns, Mike (Lofty) O’Sullivan, Julie Ann O’Sullivan (Gerahies) and Maggie (Crooha) O’Sullivan
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Magpies581 viewsThe Magpie team of 1915

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L.D.F580 viewsMembers of the L.D.F. pictured in Castletownbere.
Donal (Dole) Murphy, ?, ?, ?, Brendan Murphy, Bere Island and John Meade, Bere Island
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Timmy Flynn579 viewsGathering Hay in Dromagowlane, Adrigole. Early 1990's
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Emigration Office578 viewsThis old building was discovered around the mid 1970’s when 'Bill Neill's Bar' was demolished in preparation for the building of the new A.I.B bank in the Square. It had been known locally in past times as the Passport Office. Here it was that people bought their boat tickets and made declarations as the first stage of being accepted into the USA
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HMS Polyphemus575 viewsThe Polyphemus was a real one-off, a Torpedo Ram, carrying a bow tube and four broadside tubes and a strengthened spur ram. For her own defence she carried six 1 inch calibre twin barrelled Nordenfelt Machine Guns. Although the spur ram was an integral part of the design, it was meant as a weapon of last resort
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