Valentia Island (Irish: Dairbhre, meaning 'oak isle') is one of Ireland's most westerly points. It lies off the Iveragh Peninsula in the southwest of...
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up valentia or Valentia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Valentia may refer to: Valentia Island, off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland Valentia (Roman...
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telegraph cable. The project began in 1854 with the first cable laid from Valentia Island off the west coast of Ireland to Bay of Bulls, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland...
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Puffin Island from mainland Puffin Island and, in the distance to its left, Valentia Island Media related to Puffin Island (Ireland) at Wikimedia Commons...
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therefore a particularly prominent part of western Irish life, with Valentia Island, off the west coast of County Kerry, getting almost twice as much annual...
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St. Finian's Bay and Valentia Island which the official driving ring misses (the official cycling route takes in Valentia Island). As well as beaches...
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trans-oceanic submarine telegraph cable, while a sister cable station on Valentia Island, Ireland, served as the eastern terminus. The original cable was first...
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man named Dexter, who was factor of the estates of Lord Hawarden on Valentia Island. Until the second half of the nineteenth century it was considered...
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Araucaria heterophylla (redirect from Norfolk Island pine)
probably the most northerly specimen growing outdoors is a young tree on Valentia Island on the southwest coast of Ireland. The tendency for potted saplings...
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from three sites have been reported from the Valentia Slate Formation of Valentia Island, Ireland. The Valentia Slate Formation is composed mostly of purple...
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Ring, beginning and ending at Killarney, just east of the peninsula. Valentia Island lies off the northwestern tip of the peninsula. It is connected with...
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Telegraph Company between Heart's Content in Newfoundland and Labrador and Valentia Island near Waterville. Waterville's role in transatlantic communication came...
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central Iveragh Peninsula on the southwest coast of Ireland opposite Valentia Island about 5 miles west of Cahersiveen. Reenard is connected to the Irish...
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Maude Delap (category People from Valentia Island)
when Maude was aged 8, the family moved to Valentia Island when her father became the rector of the island and Cahirciveen. Maude and her sisters received...
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, England Chapeltown, County Kerry, a village on Valentia Island, Ireland Chapelton (disambiguation) Chapeltoun, estate in East Ayrshire...
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(estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024. buchanan-solutions.com. "Valentia Island, Ireland". The Telegraph Field. Archived from the original on 2013-06-21...
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Portmagee (category Valentia Island)
of Valentia Island, and is known locally as 'the ferry', in reference to its purpose as a crossing point to the island. Access to Valentia Island is now...
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Beginish (from Irish Beiginis, meaning 'small island') is an island in Valentia Harbour, in south west Kerry Kerry, Ireland. Dominating the northern skyline...
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Knightstown, County Kerry (category Valentia Island)
settlement on Valentia Island, County Kerry, in Ireland. It lies within the townland of Farranreagh, at the eastern tip of the island. As of the CSO...
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Reeks range. Just off the coast are a number of islands, including the Blasket Islands, Valentia Island and the Skelligs. Skellig Michael is a World Heritage...
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Church Island is a medieval Christian monastery and National Monument located in Valentia Harbour, Ireland. Church Island is located on a 1-acre (0.4 ha)...
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when the first weather observations were transmitted from Valentia Observatory on Valentia Island in County Kerry to the British Meteorological Office. A...
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in Irish mythology, a powerful blind druid of Munster who lived on Valentia Island, County Kerry. He could grow to enormous size, and his breath caused...
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evidence for tetrapods, also tracks and trackways, date from ca. 385 Mya (Valentia Island, Ireland). The oldest partial fossils of tetrapods date from the Frasnian...
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Skellig Michael (redirect from Luke Skywalker Island)
originally constructed from mostly lime mortar with imported sandstone from Valentia Island. It is today mostly collapsed, with only its eastern window still standing...
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On July 13, 1866 the cable laying ship Great Eastern sailed out of Valentia Island, Ireland and on July 27 landed at Heart's Content in Newfoundland,...
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The Valentia Lifeboat Station is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) station located at Knightstown, Valentia Island, County Kerry, Ireland....
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Eastern laid out a lasting link from Waterville, County Kerry and nearby Valentia Island, in Ireland, to Heart's Content, Newfoundland. By 1870, Suez was linked...
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