Beara Peninsula Heritage PhotoSite

Castletownbere, Beara, West Cork, Ireland. Email:admin@bearanews.net ©2020
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Family Home of Tim Harrington M.P.579 views
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Christmas in Crooha Lower (West), Adrigole. 1989577 viewsJohn Kinns, Mike (Lofty) O’Sullivan, Julie Ann O’Sullivan (Gerahies) and Maggie (Crooha) O’Sullivan
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L.D.F576 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 Flynn574 viewsGathering Hay in Dromagowlane, Adrigole. Early 1990's
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Magpies573 viewsThe Magpie team of 1915

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Lace Making Group. 1906572 viewsA Lace Class was started by the Congested District Board, Castletownbere on the 10th March 1906. Miss Mary Roche was the first teacher. At a later date this industry was taken over by the Sisters of Mercy. The Industry flourished; employment and training in machine knitting and in the making of Limerick Lace were given to many girls in Beara. The lace Class was discontinued in the late 1940’s.
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HMS Polyphemus571 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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Sailor570 viewsTaken in 1903 above the town. Can Anyone name him?
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Derreenataggart Stone Circle570 views
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