Housed within the 200 year old signal tower is a museum and memorial to all those who lost their lives on 7th May 1915 on board the RMS Lusitania. It was torpedoed off the Old Head of Kinsale by a German U-Boat.

Wolf Beyenburg

May 6, 2024

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The Lusitania disaster, the torpedoing of a civilian ship without warning as part of unrestricted submarine warfare, was one of the reasons for the USA's entry into the First World War.

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