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Kinsale : raid on station

Abstract: Files contain documents regarding raid Kinsale Lighthouse after the Irish War of Independence. Included below are extracts from reports by F. Curling, Principal Keeper: 2 December 1921: discontinuance of Fog Signal at Kinsale due to British Military evacuation from vicinity. Commanding Officer ordered to remove explosives to Kinsale ; 10 August 1922: IRA quartered in the Coastguard Station & Lloyds, before evacuating same commandeered 80 gallons of Paraffin and a telescope.

In collection  War and Raid Files Collection

Resource description

Original version
Date created: –
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
2 files (16 p.)
17 x 11 cm
Numbering/sequence
Original file number(s):1922/659, 1921/1085.
Keywords
Old Head of Kinsale Lighthouse (1812-present); Irish Revolutionary Period 1916-1923; raid; telescope.
Languages
English  
Genre
Miscellaneous Documents
Subject
Ireland--History--War of Independence, 1919-1921   linked data (lcsh)
Old Head of Kinsale Lighthouse (Co. Cork, Ireland)
Irish Republican Army
Raids (Military science)
Telescopes--Ireland
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_300071
Location
Commissioners of Irish Lights . WR/2/9
Suggested credit
"Kinsale," held by Commissioners of Irish Lights. © Various copyright holders - contact UCD Digital Library. Digital content by University College Dublin, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_300071>
Record source
Descriptions created by staff of UCD Library, University College Dublin based on the finding aid created by Niamh Collins, The Commissioners of Irish Lights. — Metadata creation date: 2022-08-09

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