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Old Head Signal Tower, Lusitania Museum and Memorial

Old Head Signal Tower, Lusitania Museum and Memorial

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Old Head Signal Tower, Lusitania Museum and Memorial

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Location: Cork, Munster, Ireland

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Willem VS

May 4, 2026

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Old Head Signal Tower, Lusitania Museum & Memorial Garden together form the historic heart of the Old Head: a fully restored Napoleonic signal tower on the highest point of the headland, with a small but poignant museum inside about the RMS Lusitania, the passenger ship torpedoed off this coast in 1915; outside lies the quiet Memorial Garden with the long bronze wave sculpture listing all the victims and an original davit pointing to the wreck site—a place where coastal defence, maritime history and a wide Atlantic panorama come together in one powerful moment.

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Natalie

March 25, 2023

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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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