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IMG_4970.jpg Alcock and Brown Monument, Ballinaboy Galway - © A Santillo 2013

Memorial to commemorate the first non stop transatlantic flight by Alcock and Brown started in Newfoundland and ended in a remote bog at Errislannan in Connemara in the west coast of Ireland.

Two memorials commemorating the flight were constructed near the landing spot close to Clifden. One is an isolated cairn a little over two miles south of Clifden on the site of Marconi's first transatlantic radio station from where Alcock and Brown transmitted their success to London. This memorial is about a quarter of a mile from the spot where they actually landed. In addition there is a sculpture of a plane's tail-fin on Errislannan Hill about a mile north of the landing spot which was erected to mark the f40th anniversary of the landing, on June 15th. 1959.


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