Day 4 Tuesday May 26th 2009 Site visit to Murlough Bay Meeting with members of the Roger Casement Commemoration Committee

by Conor Kelly, 27 May 2009

Today involves visiting another site in the upper part of the bay. Rumour has it that there was once a cross erected here to the memory of Casement. It has since either been removed or vandalised. Following a meeting with members of the Roger Casement Commemorative Committee outside Ballvoy near Murlough, it emerges that a celtic cross once stood here on the site of a previous wooden cross. The first erection in 1903 was to the memory of those killed by the Great Famine of 1847 and it was then appropriated for the purposes of remembering Casement and other members of the republican movement. All trace of it has gone, with the exception of a bald concrete rectangle on the grass overlooking the natural amphitheatre at Murlough.