Castletownroche
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Castletownroche is a townland, village, and civil parish in the barony of Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland. It is located on the N72 national secondary road. In ancient times, it was known in Irish as Dún
Former mill buildings and Saint Mary's Church of Ireland church at Castletownroche
Bridge at Castletownroche, rebuilt in the 1830s, which spans the River Awbeg
Approaching Castletownroche on the N72 road
Operation Osprey
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Operation Osprey was a plan conceived by the German Foreign Ministry and Abwehr II. mid-1942. The plan was an enlargement of Operation Whale. Planning took place in the context of American troops land
Castletownroche
…buried in a German cemetery at Glencree in County Wicklow. It was later confirmed that the Nazis had several secret plans involving Ireland, such as Operation Osprey. However, the identity and motives of the man calling himself Oskar Metzke remain unknown. A song commemorating Metzke's arrival in Castletownroche…
Walter Schellenberg as an SS-Oberführer