Beara Peninsula Heritage PhotoSite

Castletownbere, Beara, West Cork, Ireland. Email:admin@bearanews.net ©2020
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Politics618 viewsPolitics as it should be: Addressing the crowd in the Square, Castletownbere 1932
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USS Amabala. Fuelling Supply Tanker618 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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The 'Eccles Hotel'. Glengarriff. 1905617 views
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Christmas in Crooha Lower (West), Adrigole. 1989614 viewsJohn Kinns, Mike (Lofty) O’Sullivan, Julie Ann O’Sullivan (Gerahies) and Maggie (Crooha) O’Sullivan
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Battleship 1st Class613 viewsPre Dreadnought Battleship moored at Castletown Berehaven 1904. Class type and name unknown
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The Pier610 viewsThe S.S Princess Beara coming alongside the Pier at Castletownbere
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President Truman610 viewsPresident Truman with an honour guard of Beara miners in Butte, Montana
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Emigration Office610 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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L.D.F607 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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