See ÉIRE WWII Markers, Ireland

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Following the construction of the 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. A number of signs such as the one at Cahore Point in Wicklow were built too small initially and so larger signs were built over them at a later stage. A number of the signs still exist in varying states of repair, mostly along the west of the country and in addition some of have been renovated such as the one in Loop Head, County Clare.

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