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Collins Library
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Bandon Library
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Michael Collins
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On 16 October 1890 Michael Collins was born near Sam's Cross, a tiny hamlet in West Cork, named after Sam Wallace, a local highwayman. Sam's Cross lies between Rosscarbery and Clonakilty in the beautiful part of Ireland known as West Cork.
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Bust of Michael Collins situated at his birthplace at Sam’s Cross and visited by thousands of people from all over the world annually.
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If you visit this area, to get to the " Birthplace " take the road from Clonakilty to Skibbereen and after 3 miles or so
you come to a village known as Lissavaird (The Pyke) and when there ask for directions as you are within 1.5 miles of the birthplace of Michael Collins
On the last day of his life, 22 August 1922, Michael Collins travelled this road for the last time as the photograph below shows the
location of the " Ambush " and the Monument erected in his memory.
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Ambush Site and Monument
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Béal Na Bláth, Co. Cork, Ireland.
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