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  • 08-06-2013 7:45pm
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    celica00
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    does anyone know what the ruins besides and at the golfclub-gate were for? or any history to it?
    thanks:)


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    who the fug
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    Top of the headland there was a coast guard station.


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    Balmed Out
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    Years since ive been there but do you mean the old fort walls? Id presume it would have been a Norman promontory fort - a fort with walled at only one side, cliffs making the rest inaccessible.
    The galley head near clonakilty is very similar but not preserved.

    edit - found the following
    http://www.irishconnectionsmagazine.com/archives/v4i3/oldhead.htm


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    celica00
    Registered Users Posts: 880 ✭✭✭celica00


    @balmed_out:

    thank you! that was kinda what i was looking for but i only found the lighthouse-stories via google.
    thanks again :)


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