Lighthouse in Kilbaha South, County Clare

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What is recorded here

This record is for the first lighthouse on Loop Head which was of stone-vaulted cottage type built about 1670. These cottages accommodated the light keeper and his family in two or three rooms and had an internal stone stairway between two of the rooms leading up to a platform on the roof where a coal burning brazier or chauffer was positioned. Part of the old cottage with its battered outside wall can still be seen near the light-keepers dwellings. The lighthouse fell into disuse in the latter part of the seventeenth century and was re-established in 1720. (Robinson 1988, 55-7) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 8 August 2016

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL071-002

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