Wartime Irish Navigation Aids Uncovered By Wildfires

Recent wildfires on Bray Head in County Wicklow have uncovered one of the signs for airmen-
"Found around most parts of the Irish coast these huge stone EIRE signs were a declaration of our neutrality and also a somewhat less than neutral navigational aid for overflying Allied airmen to whom the numbered locations were useful guide points during their World War 2 missions.
The stone EIRE signs are now certainly a unique part of our landscape and tell an important part of the story of our World War 2 neutrality. After the war had ended, however, many of these signs were removed. Farmers used the stones for wall building, they became defaced or just faded into obscurity. But their story is one worth remembering and their physical structures, along with the affiliated Lookout posts, are worth preserving."
EIRE for the Airmen: Guiding the Allies around the Irish Coast