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What is recorded here

Freestanding single-bay single-storey flat-roofed lookout post ["LOP"], between 1939-42, on an elongated half-octagonal plan. Now disused. Flat reinforced concrete roof. Rendered mass- or reinforced concrete block walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Set in unkempt grounds on headland.

A lookout post ["LOP 59"] erected during "The Emergency" (1939-46) to a standardised design signed by William Henry Howard Cooke (1881-1977) of the Office of Public Works (established 1831) representing an important component of the mid twentieth-century built heritage of Achill Island (cf. 31300101; 31300301; 31300706; 31300801; 31307501; 31308503). NOTE: A so-called "Éire Marker" survives nearby (coordinates 458523,804136).

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