Leirinbeg Sango Radar Station This area of Lerinbeg Headland Lerinbeg, which means; the small half of a point, became the home of what was in 1940 a highly secret and technologically advanced military establishment. In the first year of the Second World War the inhabitants of the area had no access to certain localities for over 15 years. It was called RAF Sango and was a radar station.

The story of the “radio war” the success of which proved vital to the RAF Mastery in The Battle of Britain and subsequent operations involving fighter bomber commands is not widely known. This radar station was an installation part of a chain of new radar sessions around the coast of Great Britain referred to as Air ministry experimental stations.  Along with defence of the country in detecting any incoming air raids they were to guide the British air crews’ home. Although now derelict with only ruins after demolition in 1957 older local inhabitants recall the influx of military and the influences and changes that took place in what was then a very remote and difficult to access  community.

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