Roger Casement’s 100-year-old treasure map back in Kerry hands

Treasure maps rarely yield results — but this one drawn by Roger Casement 100 years ago appear to have yielded gold for the British authorities.

It may have cost Kerry Museum a pretty penny when they paid around €10,000 and change for it at an English auction last week.

But it brings to an end a century-old mystery about a document that had not been publicly seen since the destined-for-execution Sir Roger drew it on Easter Sunday 1916 after being shipped from Kerry to London. The former diplomat was detained after coming ashore from a German submarine at Banna Strand in Tralee Bay days earlier.