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Valentia Island Heritage Centre

TIME : 2016/2/18 22:05:37

Housed in the old school on the road towards Geokaun Mountain, this is one of those wonderful local museums, a treasure trove of artefacts that tell the tale of the island's history more eloquently than any textbook – from school chemistry sets and slate-quarrying tools to fossils and old photographs, with pride of place going to the morse key used to test the world's first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1857.