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Lusitania Museum

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Built in 1805 as a response to the threat of invasion from Napoleonic France. Its function was primarily as a station for passing urgent messages from its neighbouring stations west and east or from ships at sea by line of sight readings to Dublin

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  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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  • Christopher Michel, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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  • Andy Beecroft, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Andy Beecroft, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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