Valentia Island hoping to join Skellig Michael on Unesco World Heritage List  

Transatlantic cable in Kerr included on the new World Heritage Tentative List for Ireland on Thursday

The Telegraph Field (or Longitude Field) on Valentia Island, Co Kerry, with its cable station, (ruins) is the site of the first permanent communications link between Europe and North America. Picture: Valerie O'Sullivan

Valentia Island transatlantic cable is in contention to become a Unesco World Heritage site and the second such prestigious landmark in Co Kerry.

If successful, it would join Skellig Michael and Brú na Bóinne on the World Heritage List.