The Speckled Door is listed at Ballymackean on the Old Head of Kinsale. The safest history angle for this page is place context rather than an unverified origin story for the pub itself.
Nearby Old Head Signal Tower is recorded by Fáilte Ireland as tower number 25 in the coastal signal chain built in response to the threat of French invasion. The tower was built in 1804, and the site now also tells the story of RMS Lusitania, which was torpedoed during World War I off the Old Head of Kinsale.
Source note: this is verified nearby history, not a claim that the pub dates from the signal-tower period.
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