Monday June 1st 2009 Site visit to Murlough Bay

by Conor Kelly, 3 Jun 2009

24º C and a very clear day at Murlough. An opportunity for extensive documentation of the former site of the mutilated monument. I also visit the former RAF Murlough base near Torr Head, which, in 1956, shared the fate of Casement’s Celtic cross. It has become a monument in its own way to the Cold War. The base was situated here to survey enemy activities over the same waters that Casement traversed in 1914 on his way to Germany to enlist the help of the Kaiser in the planned rising of 1916.