The history of Ballyconneely
The salmon farm of 1854, Marconi's message of 1907, the flight of 1919, the botanists. 4 moments, in order.
- 1854
The first salmon farm
The Dohulla Fishery carried out the first salmon farming in the United Kingdom.
- 1905 and 1907
Marconi
The wireless station built in 1905 sent the first transatlantic message, to Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, in 1907.
- 1919
Alcock and Brown
The first transatlantic flight ended two miles away in Derrygimla bog, near the Marconi station; the soft ground damaged the aircraft.
- 1975 to 2010
The Dutch botanists
A team studied the lakes and water chemistry around Ballyconneely and across Ireland, for a post-glacial landscape the Netherlands no longer has.
Where this comes from
Every paragraph above summarises a statement in Wikipedia, "Ballyconneely", licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, as it read on 2026-09-19. Follow it for the footnotes. Nothing has been added from memory.
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