
What is recorded here
Telegraph Field Valentia Island is a memorial in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the first Atlantic undersea cable for communications emerged there, linking distant lands through water and wire. Maybe the field still holds the ghost of that sudden connection, waiting for humans to remember what distance meant before the cable broke it open.
First Atlantic Undersea Cable for Communications
Places near here
Anglo American Cable House, Telegraph FieldMonument · 115 yd
Hut site in Coarha BegHut site · 267 yd
Cromwell's FortRuins · 324 yd
Skellig Experience CentreMuseum · 1.0 mi
Bray HeadMountain / peak · 1.3 mi
Culloo RockViewpoint · 1.5 mi
Sean LochaCliff · 2.6 miOther information
Photo: N Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0