Blacksod Point Lighthouse — FALLMORE

Freestanding single-bay two-stage lighthouse, designed 1863; built 1864-5; commissioned 1866; extant 1897, on a square plan with single-bay single-storey double-pile recessed end bays. Electrified, 1967. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roofs behind parapets with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables with granite ashlar chimney stacks to apexes having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron hoppers with cast-iron gullys on cut-granite beaded corbels. Tuck pointed granite ashlar battered walls on cut-granite chamfered plinth with parapet to walkway on cut-granite beaded corbels having repointed cut-granite coping centred on lantern; tuck pointed granite ashlar walls (end bays) on cut-granite chamfered plinths with parapets on cut-granite stringcourses having repointed cut-granite coping. Square-headed central window openings with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite lintels with hood mouldings over framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (end bays) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite lintels framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows behind timber boarded shutters. Set perpendicular to road on granite flagged rendered battered platform.