Black Ball Head Signal Tower

Black Ball Head Signal Tower stands on a windswept headland south of Lower Reen on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, overlooking Bantry Bay. The tower is part of a remarkable Napoleonic-era optical telegraph network built between 1804 and 1806 in response to fears of French invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. Eighty-one signal towers were constructed around the Irish coastline during this pe...