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Today, the Old Head of Kinsale is visited by golfers who come to play on its 18-hole golf course that opened in 1997. [6] Since the golf course opened, access to the Old Head of Kinsale has been restricted to golfers and guests only, and there has been a long-running campaign for the restoration of public access organised by the "Free the Old ...
The Kinsale Head gas field is a depleted offshore natural gas field in the Celtic Sea, located 50 km (31 mi) off the southern coast of County Cork, Ireland. Discovered in 1971 [1] [2] near the Old Head of Kinsale, it met Ireland's gas needs until 1996. [3] The gas field is located in a water depth of 100 metres and 1,000 metres below the seabed ...
Kinsale (/ k ɪ n ˈ s eɪ l / kin-SAYL; Irish: Cionn tSáile, meaning 'head of the brine' [2]) is a historic port and fishing town in County Cork, Ireland.Located approximately 25 km (16 mi) south of Cork City on the southeast coast near the Old Head of Kinsale, it sits at the mouth of the River Bandon, and has a population of 5,991 (as of the 2022 census) [1] which increases in the summer ...
Built by the de Courcy family [15] (Barons of Kinsale). Now a complete ruin Old Head Castle Old Head of Kinsale: Tower house: 13th century Another de Courcy castle built in defence of the Kinsale coast. Only some walls remain [16] A nearby signal tower (1805) has since been restored. [17]
Kinsale Harbour: Unknown: 5 m (16 ft) 18 m (59 ft) 9 nmi (17 km) Old Head of Kinsale Lighthouse: Old Head of Kinsale: Cork: Celtic Sea: 1665/1853: 30 m (98 ft) 72 m (236 ft) 20 nmi (37 km) Galley Head Lighthouse: Galley Head
English: The Memorial Garden at the Lusitania Museum & Signal Tower, Old Head, Kinsale, Ireland.The Cunard passenger liner, RMS Lusitania, bound for Liverpool from New York, sank 12 miles (20 km) away, off the Old Head (the Old Head lighthouse can be seen in the photo at the top right), on 7 May 1915 after being torpedoed by a German U-boat during the First World War. 1198 of the ship's 1959 ...
This is a sortable table of the townlands in the barony of Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the barony, and also where a townland is known by two alternative names.
Kinsale Historic District is a national historic district located at Kinsale, Westmoreland County, Virginia. The district encompasses 65 contributing buildings in the historic core of the village of Kinsale. The district includes primarily residential and commercial buildings dating from the late-19th to early-20th centuries.