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Lonehort Guns

A Children's Tour of Lonehort Battery, Bere Island

23 August, 11:30am - 12:45pm

  • Outside the Main Gate at Lonehort Battery
  • Lonehort, Bere Island, Co Cork
  • Co. Cork County

Celebrate National Heritage Week’s Wild Child Day with a guided tour of Lonehort Battery, Bere Island for children of all ages and their parents/guardians. Lonehort is the largest of seven gun batteries on Bere Island constructed during the early 1900s and was in use during World War One. The battery is surrounded by a deep moat and accessed by a bridge.

Island tour guide and historian Barry Hanley will lead the tour around the battery and its two large coastal artillery guns, there will be lots of fun activities including a heritage scavenger hunt and the change to see a variety of wildflowers and butterflies that have also made the battery their home.

All children must be accompanied by an adult. For ferry details see www.bereisland.net


Further Information

The Bere Island Projects Group CLG


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Heritage Council Grant

This event is part of a project supported under the Heritage Council's grants programme in 2025

Funded by The Heritage Council


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