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Alcock and Brown Landing Site


TripAdvisor Traveller Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #9 of 11 attractions in Clifden
Traveller Description: The site where John Alcock and Arthur Brown landed following their historic cross-Atlantic flight in 1919.
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Attraction type: Historic site
Address: Derrygimlagh Bog Clifden
Ireland
Tel: 353-91-563081

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3 of 5 stars
new york, ny
23 Aug 2009

You drive along and see a small sign indicating the Landing Site to one side (and a ways up, the actual monument to the other side. ) So you drive down a muddy road for nearly a mile, stopping to open and close gates as to not let sheep out. It's so very Irish! Once you reach the site you... more

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1 of 5 stars
Cambridge UK
4 Mar 2004
9
people found this review helpful

This site, and the closely neighbouring Marconi transmitter station site, are in the care of Duchas, the Irish government heritage organisation. To say that the sites are under-interpreted is understatement. Both hold huge interest for the inquiring visitor, but after trudging about a mile across a rough path on a boiling hot day (yes, Ireland has some!) we found there... more

10 Sep 2008
1
person found this review helpful

Oui, il n'y a pas grand-chose à voir mais l'émotion est intacte. On découvre -après avoir traversé des montagnes de... more

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Alcock and Brown Landing Site Address

Derrygimlagh Bog, Clifden, Ireland
Tel: 353-91-563081