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It's a long way from Mizen to Malin

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 13 older comments, and then…
• Suck Diesel said:

  Similar, but not identical maps.app.goo.gl/3PQXWCVdPzjz6DcX8?g_st=ic

• Suck Diesel said:

  Not sure that they’re antennae, seems Mizen Head operated fog signals from 1909, a radio beacon from 1931 www.irishlights.ie/tourism/our-lighthouses/mizen-head.aspx

• beachcomber australia said:

  Three men and a three-legged dock-tailed Dog. History and details - www.irishlights.ie/tourism/our-lighthouses/mizen-head.aspx . Surprised to see the bridge dates from 1907. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000741407/HierarchyTree?recor...

• John Spooner said:

  i suspect that what we can see are not antennae but supports for the actual antennae, which would be in the form of long wires, required for the longer wavelengths which would be all that was available in the early 20th century.. I no longer think this.

• DannyM8 said:

  beachcomber australia That's the best dog we have had in weeks!