Ballycurrin House — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Freestanding single-bay two-stage "lighthouse", built 1847, on a circular plan. Now disused. Set on pier extending into lake.

A lakeshore "lighthouse" erected by Charles Lynch DL (d. 1897) representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of south County Mayo. NOTE: Although traditionally cited as a late eighteenth-century "improvement" of the Ballycurrin House estate, quoting a date stone ("1772") on the adjacent boathouse, the "lighthouse" does not appear on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1838; published 1840) and an accompanying date stone ("1847") indicates a period of construction coinciding with the height of the Great Famine (1845-9).

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