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Youghal Lighthouse — Lighthouse Road

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Youghal Lighthouse — Lighthouse Road
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Freestanding circular-plan single-bay two-stage lighthouse, built c. 1850, with polygonal-plan single-bay single-stage domed lantern surrounded by cast-iron walk balustrade. Metal sheet dome to lantern with curved iron bracing struts. Painted tapered coursed ashlar sandstone walls with moulded consoles. Square-headed openings to tower with cut-stone sills, and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening with timber battened door. Three-bay single-storey over basement lighthouse keepers house, having lean-to to north elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and render sills. Square-headed opening with timber battened door. Spear-headed cast-iron railings on bridge to entrance. Set back from road in own grounds overlooking coastline with coursed, roughly dressed sandstone boundary walls to circumference, and landscaped grounds to site.

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