Glencree German war cemetery

Most are Luftwaffe (air force) or Kriegsmarine (navy) personnel.

Forty-six[1] were German civilian detainees who were being shipped from Britain to Canada for internment when their ship, SS Arandora Star was torpedoed by a German U-boat, U-47, off Tory Island, County Donegal, in July 1940.

Dr Görtz committed suicide after the war when he was informed he would be deported; he feared he would be handed over to the Soviet Union.

The graveyard is administered by the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge).

[2] Alongside the German Cemetery, on the bank of the Glencree River, a Mass rock can be reached by a narrow riverside path.