Clifden: The Station at the Edge of the Map Marconi's Clifden station opened in 1907 on an Irish bog as the European end of the first regular transatlantic wireless service. This guide covers the giant condenser house, the station village, and the fire that ended it. Quick facts Opened 1907 Partner station Glace Bay, Canada Condensers huge air capacitors Staff a station village End burned, July 1922 Clifden worked until politics destroyed it: gutted during the Irish Civil War, its traffic never returned. The site today is bog and foundations, remembered beside the field where Alcock and Brown landed the first non-stop Atlantic flight in 1919. Keep learning - morse code alphabet chart with sound: Morse Code Works - free Morse code tools and guides. Reference chart