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Eask Tower

Beacon
Eask Tower
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Eask Tower is on the East tip of Ballyameenboght, South of Dingle Bay. Eask Tower resides on private property. After paying 2 Euros per person at a small, unmanned shed, you will see this sign on the inside window.
Eask Tower is on the East tip of Ballyameenboght, South of Dingle Bay. Eask Tower resides on private property. After paying 2 Euros per person at a small, unmanned shed, you will see this sign on the inside window. · Photo: Warrenfish · Public domain
Eask Tower is on the East tip of Ballyameenboght, South of Dingle Bay
Eask Tower is on the East tip of Ballyameenboght, South of Dingle Bay · Photo: Warrenfish · CC BY-SA 3.0

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If Eask Tower in Carhoo West helped someone find their way towards Dingle Harbour, the person giving directions could afford to sound very sure of themselves. Their companion would still ask which way to turn next, just when the harbour came into view.

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Freestanding beacon tower, built 1847, on a circular plan. Benchmark-inscribed dry stone battered walls with timber finger point. Freestanding single-bay single-storey flat-roofed lookout post ["LOP36"], between 1939-42, on an elongated half-octagonal plan. Now disused. Set on elevated site overlooking Cuan an Daingin [Dingle Harbour].

The story behind this place

Freestanding single-bay single-storey flat-roofed lookout post ["LOP36"], between 1939-42, on an elongated half-octagonal plan.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21305306

This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.

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Pictures: Warrenfish, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Pampuco, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; David Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Chris Light, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; David Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Irina Guerin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Superbass, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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