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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 three-stage lighthouse, sanctioned 1830; built 1836; extant 1838, on a circular plan. Damaged, 1850. Damaged, 1861. Destroyed, 1894. Truncated, 1895. In ruins, 1916. One of a pair. Slate hung battered walls on cut-granite chamfered plinth. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Set in shared grounds on outcrop with limewashed battered boundary wall to perimeter.

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