Eire 6 Restoration
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RESURRECTING AN HISTORIC HOWTH MONUMENT
The Howth ÉIRE 6 Restoration Group is a collaboration between people
from local community organisations who wish to restore the “ÉIRE 6” sign on
Howth’s East Mountain, a large Second World War aerial recognition marker.
The letters of the sign are about 14m high, formed of 1m-wide strips of
embedded whitewashed locally-sourced stones. The sign was intended to be
visible to encroaching aircraft of the combatant powers. It is a surviving
monument of that war, and as such part both of our national heritage and
local history. It is currently overgrown, buried and in disrepair.
The ÉIRE-6 sign must be protected as an important monument and
restored in a manner sensitive to the area’s unique landscape.
By restoring the sign, the group hopes to grow awareness among the local
community of its historic importance, involve youth groups in its restoration,
and commemorate the local volunteers of the Coast Watching Service (CWS)
who manned the nearby CWS Look-Out Post (LOP) from 1939 to 1945 and
installed the “ÉIRE 6” sign in 1943. By guarding the coastline, these men
played an integral part in defending Irish neutrality during World War Two.
CAMPAIGN TO RESTORE THE HOWTH “ÉIRE 6” SIGN
Only about twenty-three of these wartime ÉIRE signs are believed to have
survived. Some have been, or are being, restored. One of these is the ÉIRE
sign at Dalkey, forming with Howth the two that marked out Dublin Bay. It was
restored by Dalkey Tidy Towns volunteers. The Eire 6 sign's location was revealed
during a large gorse fire in 1985 and in September of 2019 a local joint effort came together to form the Howth Eire 6 Restoration Group
We have been given ministerial consent to begin restoring the area. Our goal is to raise funds as soon as possible to start initial works & with the help from the local community & beyond we can secure the resurrection of the unique monument.
Please share our page & fundraiser link
Many thanks
The Howth ÉIRE 6 Restoration Group is a collaboration between people
from local community organisations who wish to restore the “ÉIRE 6” sign on
Howth’s East Mountain, a large Second World War aerial recognition marker.
The letters of the sign are about 14m high, formed of 1m-wide strips of
embedded whitewashed locally-sourced stones. The sign was intended to be
visible to encroaching aircraft of the combatant powers. It is a surviving
monument of that war, and as such part both of our national heritage and
local history. It is currently overgrown, buried and in disrepair.
The ÉIRE-6 sign must be protected as an important monument and
restored in a manner sensitive to the area’s unique landscape.
By restoring the sign, the group hopes to grow awareness among the local
community of its historic importance, involve youth groups in its restoration,
and commemorate the local volunteers of the Coast Watching Service (CWS)
who manned the nearby CWS Look-Out Post (LOP) from 1939 to 1945 and
installed the “ÉIRE 6” sign in 1943. By guarding the coastline, these men
played an integral part in defending Irish neutrality during World War Two.
CAMPAIGN TO RESTORE THE HOWTH “ÉIRE 6” SIGN
Only about twenty-three of these wartime ÉIRE signs are believed to have
survived. Some have been, or are being, restored. One of these is the ÉIRE
sign at Dalkey, forming with Howth the two that marked out Dublin Bay. It was
restored by Dalkey Tidy Towns volunteers. The Eire 6 sign's location was revealed
during a large gorse fire in 1985 and in September of 2019 a local joint effort came together to form the Howth Eire 6 Restoration Group
We have been given ministerial consent to begin restoring the area. Our goal is to raise funds as soon as possible to start initial works & with the help from the local community & beyond we can secure the resurrection of the unique monument.
Please share our page & fundraiser link
Many thanks
Organizer and beneficiary
Cathal Murnane
Organizer
County Dublin
Cathal Murnane
Beneficiary