Where Alcock and Brown met Marconi

Followed in the footsteps of Marconi through interactive interpretation waymarks. Fascinating to think that almost 100 years ago as Marconi was sending some of the first radio messages to
America, Alcock and Brown crash landed in the same bog on the first non stop trans Atlantic flight. Derrigimlagh bog is in Connemara and is the site of this fascinating 5km wall through history. Shame only a few others around as it should have been seen by everyone. Marconi’s site was 300 acres of generators, condenser, masts and buildings for up to 40 workers, with running water and electric. There was even a train to carry the imported coal to burn with the peat to generate power. The site where the plane landed was marked with a big white stone but we had to hunt for the memorial which was a wing of a plane almost 2 miles away.

We were scared in Galway by the number of people out shopping at the same time as us and then again by a woman driver going the wrong way around the motorway roundabout we were on. She missed us and so we made haste to our next campsite to recover with wine in the middle of the Burren national park.