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Mon 26 Jul 2021, 4:08 AM 999b. Public open day at Roches Point Lighthouse, 4 June 2017 – celebrating 200 years since its construction. The event was organised by the Cork Harbour Heritage Alliance in association with the Commissioners of Irish Lights. (picture: Kieran McCarthy)
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My new book ‘The Little book of Cork Harbour’ has recently been published by The History Press. Following on from last week, below is another snippet from the book– focussing on some aspects of Roches Point Lighthouse and Daunt Rock lightship in the harbour.
Roches Point Lighthouse
Around 1640-1650 AD, the Roche family purchased the Fitzgerald estate (approx. 1,500 acres) from Edmund Fitzgerald of Ballymaloe and lived for many centuries at Trabolgan. Roches Point at the mouth of Cork Harbour is named after this family. In post medieval
What s True
This is a genuine photograph of the Titanic that was taken a few days before the ship sank. However. What s False
While it is one of the final photographs of the Titanic currently known to exist, it is not the final photograph of the ship.
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A photograph is frequently shared online along with the claim that it provides the final glimpse of the Titanic before it struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean in April 1912.
This is a genuine photograph of the Titanic that was taken on April 12, 1912. While this is truly one of the final pictures to show the Titanic afloat before its ill-fated journey, it isn’t quite the “final picture” of the Titanic. Another photograph taken by first class passenger Kate Odell appears to have been snapped a few minutes after the above-displayed image.
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