This site is dedicated to the Coastguards who lived and worked around the Irish coastline between the 18th and early 20th centuries. It includes a collection of CG station photos as well as facts and figures about the people , births, deaths, census information, etc. There are also some fascinating accounts of bravery during rescues from shipwrecks as well as interesting Extracts of shipwrecks and rescues, etc.

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It was founded by Tony Daly back in 2001, though sadly he passed away in 2021 and it was his wish that the site remain up for the future for researchers and interested visitors.

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The Coastguard Cutter Vol2 No11 November 2004: Life on the islands off the West shore of Ireland can only be described as harsh. On the Aran Islands, as like some of the others hereabouts, there are no trees, only low growing shrubs like the spindle tree, hawthorn and hazel. The Islanders have painstakingly created fields by piling layers of sand and seaweed on top of crushed rock. Seaweed, known as the black weed, was used as fertiliser. Scraping a meagre livelihood from farming and fishing to put food on the table left no time to look on Coastguards and Police with friendly eyes so they dodged the Law whenever they could. Illicit Poitin (aka Poteen) making became a cottage industry. Article Category: Newsletter Archives