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Tory Island Lighthouse — Oileán Thoraí [Tory Island]

lighthouse keeper's house
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Tory Island Lighthouse — Oileán Thoraí [Tory Island]
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Pair of semi-detached three-bay two-storey former lighthouse keepers' houses associated with Tory Island Lighthouse, built c.1885-8, having attached single-bay flat-roofed porches to centre of front (west) elevation. Now in use as accommodation or outbuildings since automation of lighthouse in 1990. Flat (felt?) roofs, having moulded eaves course, raised smooth rendered parapets, and three smooth rendered chimneystacks (one to centre and one to each end), and some surviving sections of metal rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course; smooth rendered walls and eaves to porches. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and some surviving two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorways to south sides of porches, with timber doors and overlights. Smooth rendered and rubble stone boundary walls to site. Single-storey outbuilding to rear with mono-pitched roof, smooth rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings.

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