File:Portmarnock - County Dublin (3497939667).jpg
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Like many of Dublin's coastal settlements, it is home to a Napoleonic Martello tower. Portmarnock is famous for its world class golf course which formally opened on December 26 1894, while another links course, opened in the 1990s, was designed by German golfer Bernhard Langer. That golf course and its accompanying hotel are built around the former home of the Jameson distilling family. Anne Jameson's son was Guglielmo Marconi (she married Giuseppe Marconi), who invented the wireless and carried out the first transatlantic morse code transmission in 1902 from Nova Scotia, Canada to England. Portmarnock's beach was the starting point for two aviation firsts. On 23 June 1930 Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew took off in the Southern Cross on the first westbound transatlantic flight (to Newfoundland, Canada). The first solo westbound transatlantic flight also began from Portmarnock beach as on 18 August 1932 Jim Mollison, a British pilot, took a de Havilland Puss Moth from Portmarnock to Pennfield, New Brunswick, also in Canada. Portmarnock's beach areas are popular with wind surfers and kite surfers. Portmarnock's beach is nicknamed The Velvet Strand due to the beautiful smooth sand along the beach. |
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| Author | William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland |
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