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What is recorded here

Detached five-bay single-storey former lighthouse keeper’s house associated with Rotten Island Lighthouse (see 40909715), built 1900. Now in use as stores and occasional dwelling. Flat (felt?) roof having moulded eaves course and two rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorways with timber doors. Located on offshore island to the south-east entrance to Killybegs Harbour. Site surrounded by high rubble stone boundary walls. Associated lighthouse (see 40909715) adjacent to the south. Still in use but no longer occupied.

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