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Eagle Island Lighthouse — Oileán sa Tuaidh [Eagle Island]

lighthouse keeper's house
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Eagle Island Lighthouse — Oileán sa Tuaidh [Eagle Island]
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Pair of semi-detached three-bay two-storey flat-roofed lighthouse keepers' houses, designed 1863; occupied 1901. Reroofed. Vacated, 1988. Now disused. Replacement flat bitumen felt roof on timber construction with chimney stacks centred on chimney stack having stringcourses below stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered walls on cut-granite chamfered plinth. Square-headed central door openings approached by two steps with concealed dressings framing timber boarded doors having overlights. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in shared grounds on outcrop.

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