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Shipwreck · Partly found

The Spanish Armada Wrecks

Wrecked 1588 · ~24 ships, Streedagh Strand & the Irish coast, Co. Sligo, Ireland
RECOVERED
Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

The Spanish Armada Wrecks: still unexplained.

The treasure and guns of the scattered Invincible Armada

The law of this ground: Irish protected wreck sites, diving and recovery by licence from the National Monuments Service only.
The subject
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The manifest
The treasure and guns of the scattered Invincible Armada
The account

Beaten at Gravelines, the Armada fled home around the top of Scotland and into Atlantic storms that flung two dozen ships onto the Irish coast. At Streedagh Strand three great ships went down together; La Girona broke up off Antrim with a fortune in gold and jewellery aboard. Divers have found three of the Streedagh wrecks, the rest of the Armada's bones lie scattered along 500 km of rock.

Leads, where the trail points now
  • The site is documented at Streedagh Strand & the Irish coast, Co. Sligo, Ireland; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
  • Irish protected wreck sites, diving and recovery by licence from the National Monuments Service only.
  • What is there: The treasure and guns of the scattered Invincible Armada.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • The site is documented at Streedagh Strand & the Irish coast, Co. Sligo, Ireland; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
  • Irish protected wreck sites, diving and recovery by licence from the National Monuments Service only.
  • What is there: The treasure and guns of the scattered Invincible Armada.
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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Chart position 54.400°, -8.620° (approx.) View on the Map