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The Building of Barley Cove Hotel, Goleen, West Cork, 1968 Evidence of Lisbon Earthquake 1756?

When the swimming pool was being constructed it was necessary to go down to a depth of 16 feet through the sand to reach a hard surface. At the bottom was a ship’s anchor. Tis ties in with the theory that the nearby sand dunes wee created by the Tsunami after the Lisbon Earthquake of 1756

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Destruction of Lisbon in Earthquake, January 1756 as imagined and Irish Tsunamis 1755-1761.

1st November 1755, Lisbon Earthquake, Losses by Cork Merchants of Beef, Pork, Beef in the amount of £4,300 (c€2 million) and the formation of the Barley Cove Sand Dunes, West Cork.