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Beacon in Ferrybank

Beacon

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Freestanding lantern-topped lightship mast, built 1924. Installed, 2000, on quay.
The lantern-topped mast of L.S. Albatross which was built by H. Robb of Leith, Scotland, at a cost of £15,650. The lightship was decommissioned in 1969 and was for some time moored off the west pier in Dún Laoghaire where it was used by the Scout Association of Ireland as a cadet training ship. It was later towed to the Grand Canal Basin in Dublin and subsequently passed into private ownership.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 16322030

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