Ahakista

Ahakista (Irish: Atha Ciste) is located approximately half way along the Sheep's Head peninsula between Durrus and Kilcrohane in west Cork,Ireland. It is a wooded coastal village with a deep and sheltered harbour. There is a stone circle in the area at Gorteanish that dates to the Bronze Age (2200 - 600 B.C.). The Air India Memorial Garden is located here and each June the local community remembers the terrorist attack of 1985 that resulted in the deaths of over 300 people. Just after 08:00 on Sunday 23 June 1985 an Air India Jumbo jet flying from Canada to India and carrying 329 people - most of them Canadian citizens of Indian origin - was approaching the southwest coast of Ireland when it was blown apart by a bomb, killing everybody...