Situated in the townland of Ballincolla, overlooking the mouth of Glandore Harbour, Adam and Eve islands and the broad Atlantic it is an architect designed building erected in 1895 approx. along with the new coastguard station, 0.5km distant. Apart from windows and door it was almost completely intact up to about twenty years ago.
A coastguard on duty at the Lookout on May 7th 1915 spotted the Lusitania steaming eastwards outside the Islands off the coast and at the same time he spotted a submarine near Adam Island at the mouth of Glandore Harbour. He goes on to say that “I kept the submarine under observation until it went perhaps a thousand yards. It was going so quickly that it took scarcely two minutes. I knew at once that the submarine was on the track of the Lusitania. From the point of Adam where I first spotted it, to Duluk Rock is about four and half miles. It struck me her intentions was to get in line of the Lusitania somewhere off Clonakilty Bay. The submarine and the Lusitania were what you might say following two sides of a triangle, meeting at the apex. There was no patrol or battleship of any kind visible in the water at the time. I immediately rushed down and reported the matter to the chief officer. I could see no smoke out of three of the four funnels of the Lusitania. I said to one of the men at the time that we would be likely to hear some strange news in the morning. Little any of us thought it could be so dreadful.”
