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Mountain Beacon West Cork

Tmurf · 2016-10-19 18:53:37

There is a Red Beacon on a peak in West Cork around the Shehy Mountains - Anyone Know exactly where it is

19-10-2016 6:53pm

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There is a Red Beacon on a peak in West Cork around the Shehy Mountains - Anyone Know exactly where it is

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Tmurf wrote: »

There is a Red Beacon on a peak in West Cork around the Shehy Mountains - Anyone Know exactly where it is

If it's Knockboy then it's just an old fashioned trigonometrical point.

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Cheers will check it out

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Mullaghanish near Ballyvourney has a beacon that flashes at the top of the mast on the summit. RTE mast so very tall - 4th highest structure in Ireland. The light is a requirement to protect aircraft.

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