Aran Island Lighthouse — Árainn Mhór [Aran Island]

Pair of semi-detached two-bay two-storey former lighthouse keepers' houses, built c.1910, having projecting flat-roofed porches to inner bays of front (west) elevation. Now in use as holiday accommodation. Flat roofs, hidden behind raised smooth-rendered parapets with moulded render eaves cornices, smooth-rendered chimneystacks, one to each end and one shared to middle, and with some surviving sections of profiled metal rainwater goods. Porches have flat-roofed water tanks above with moulded cornices to heads of tanks and to porches. Smooth-rendered walls over projecting smooth-rendered plinth, with smooth-rendered block quoins to corners, projecting smooth-rendered sill course at first floor level (brought around side elevations), and having render/stucco roundel/medallion to water tank to building to north. Square-headed window openings with smooth-render surrounds, stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorways to porches with raised rendered surrounds and timber battened doors. Corner fireplaces to interior of centre rooms and timber tongue-and-grooved panelling to walls. Located on north-west tip of Árainn Mhór [Aran Island] adjacent to Aran Island Lighthouse. Rubble and ashlar granite boundary walls with rubble granite and cement rendered copings to site. Enclosed yard to south. Gateway to southwest corner of site with rendered square-plan piers and wrought-iron gate. Gateway to west of porches comprises similar piers and wrought-iron gate. Detached single-storey former lighthouse keeper's dwelling adjacent to northeast.