Tory Island Lighthouse — Oileán Thoraí [Tory Island]

Freestanding tapering round-plan three-stage lighthouse, built in 1885-8, having faceted glass and metal lantern to top. Possibly incorporating earlier lighthouse of 1828-32. Metal walkway around base of lantern, supported on moulded stone corbels having simple wrought-iron railings and decorative cast-iron posts with moulded fluted finials. Metal cap over lantern with cast-iron finial to apex, lightning rod, wrought-iron ladder steps, and modern communications equipment. Painted smooth rendered stone construction, painted black and white. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed timber battened door. Rubble stone and rendered rubble stone boundary walls to site. Rectangular enclosures to southeast and west with rubble stone boundary walls. Associated former lighthouse keepers' houses adjacent to south. Later single-storey flat-roof structures to east of lighthouse with smooth rendered walls, square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash and replacement windows, and square-headed timber doors. Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding to east, having pitched natural slate roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends, coursed and/or snecked rock-faced granite walls with flush yellow brick block-and-start quoins to corners, roundel window openings with yellow brick surrounds, and shallow segmental-headed doorways and loading bays with yellow brick block-and-start surrounds, timber fittings and wrought-iron gates. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to south gable end, with pitched natural slate roof, coursed and/or snecked rock-faced granite walls with flush yellow brick block-and-start quoins to corners, shallow segmental-headed doorway to south end of west elevation with yellow brick block-and-start surround, and timber door, and with two square-headed carriage arches or loading bays with timber double-leaf doors and multiple-pane overlights. Detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding or former lighthouse keepers' accommodation to south with attic level and having pitched natural slate roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends and three rendered chimneystacks, smooth rendered walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Located at northwest tip of Oileán Thoraí [Tory Island]. Helicopter landing pad to southeast.