Boat that brought Roger Casement to Banna Strand to go on exhibition in Kerry

The wooden collapsible boat that brought patriot Roger Casement ashore to Banna Strand will go on public display in Kerry for the first time in over 90 years.

It is the first time it’s been in this country since 1916 and was last on public display in the mid 1920s at an exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum.

The flat-bottomed boat, which measures 12 ft by 4ft and is about 2ft high, is on loan to Kerry Museum and will form the centre piece of its Casement Exhibition, which will be officially opened by President Michael D Higgins next Thursday.