Mull of Oa, the American Monument in the distance

'Chan fhaighear an-dè air ais an-diugh'
You can’t today recall yesterday

 

Mull of Oa
From the car park at Upper Killeyan Farm one can walk for a mile to the Monument erected by the American Red Cross to commemmorate the 266 American servicemen drowned when HMS Tuscania was torpedoed seven miles off the coast on 5th February, 1918.

The view is suberb, to the south-west is the coastline of Antrim.

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