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D day landing craft in curracloe.

  • 15-03-2015 10:19PM
    #1
    kev1.3s
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    Went for a spin to curracloe today to show the kids the d day landing craft left behind after the saving private Ryan but it seems to have disapeared!
    Does anybody know if it's available to view still and where it got too?


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  • #2
    SCOOP 64
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    Been to curracloe dozens of times and have never seen the D day landing craft,were was it?


  • #3
    kev1.3s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    Been to curracloe dozens of times and have never seen the D day landing craft,were was it?

    I found this pic of it on the web.
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/26279022@N00/899678238/
    As it says it was on the grounds of curracloe holiday villas.


  • #4
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    kev1.3s wrote: »
    I found this pic of it on the web.
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/26279022@N00/899678238/
    As it says it was on the grounds of curracloe holiday villas.

    Never knew ,you say its gone? would have like to take my 2 lads to see it.


  • #5
    kev1.3s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    Never knew ,you say its gone? would have like to take my 2 lads to see it.

    Yeah unfortunatly so, I went down to see it several times over the years but not for a while.
    Only decided to go down because one of my kids watched the movie and got a bit interested in it and taught it would be of interest. As far as I was told at the time the crew used to eat in the little cafe there and left it as a gift.


  • #6
    SEPT 23 1989
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    You would not know that the movie had ever been made there no signs up nothing


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  • #7
    McLoughlin
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    You would not know that the movie had ever been made there no signs up nothing

    Some powerful locals don't want the area turned into a tourist destination


  • #8
    To Elland Back
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭To Elland Back


    McLoughlin wrote: »
    Some powerful locals don't want the area turned into a tourist destination

    Curracloe is a beautiful spot and should not bastardise itself for the sake of a 15 minute scene in a film made nearly twenty years ago.


  • #9
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    McLoughlin wrote: »
    Some powerful locals don't want the area turned into a tourist destination

    Are they the same ones that benifitted hugely when the film was being made? The ones that got paid 1 punt 50 pence for a filled bag of sand but paid the workers 25 pence to fill them !!


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