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Eagle Island Lighthouse — Oileán sa Tuaidh [Eagle Island]

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Eagle Island Lighthouse — Oileán sa Tuaidh [Eagle Island]
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Freestanding single-bay two-stage lighthouse, sanctioned 1830; built 1836; extant 1838, on a circular plan. Damaged, 1850. "Improved", 1895. Electrified, 1968. Automated, 1988. One of a pair. Rendered battered walls on cut-granite chamfered plinth with cantilevered walkway on cut-granite thumbnail beaded corbels supporting cast-iron "Serpentine" railings centred on lantern on repointed granite ashlar battered base. Square-headed door opening approached by two steps with concealed dressings framing timber door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings. Interior retaining cantilevered cut-granite spiral staircase with wrought iron balusters supporting wrought iron banister terminating in volute. Set in shared grounds on outcrop with limewashed battered boundary wall to perimeter.

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