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Kelpie, Chotah & the Kilcoole Gun-Run, 1914
Kilcoole, County Wicklow, August 1st 1914. Constables Dalton and Webb knew something was up. As they patrolled the railway line between Greystones and Kilcoole, they saw lights flashing from a yacht lying at anchor off Ballygannon Point. An unusual location, they agreed. In haste, they about turned for the Railway Station in Kilcoole to alert their superiors in Greystones. […]