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See Éire #7 Sign, Dalkey, Ireland
Éire Sign #7 is now visible as a result of a significant amount of work done by Dalkey Tidy Towns.
This was one of a network of lookout posts along the coast of Ireland during WWII, it was decided to add large signs marking the coast as EIRE. According to Michael Kennedy's book on the coastwatching service, Guarding Neutral Ireland, it was "a way to reduce the number of aircraft landing because their crews had lost their bearings". Kennedy's research indicates that these signs were constructed at the behest of the American authorities.
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