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The Metal Man

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The Metal Man
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Metal Man, Rosses Point A freestanding, stone navigation beacon, erected 1821. Circular plan. Painted cast-iron statue of Royal Navy petty officer pointing on battered painted coursed ashlar limestone podium with moulded torus roll cut stone string course. Navigation light mounted to front of pedestal. Painted cast-iron access ladder set into channel formed in podium. Situated on Perch Rock between Rosses Point and Oyster Island. This figurative navigation beacon, cast in 1819 by Thomas Kirke in London, forms an important element of the maritime history of County Sligo. The sturdy construction of the podium attests to the high quality of the stone masonry while the cast-iron statue raises the interest of the beacon above the ordinary.
Metal Man, Rosses Point A freestanding, stone navigation beacon, erected 1821. Circular plan. Painted cast-iron statue of Royal Navy petty officer pointing on battered painted coursed ashlar limestone podium with moulded torus roll cut stone string course. Navigation light mounted to front of pedestal. Painted cast-iron access ladder set into channel formed in podium. Situated on Perch Rock between Rosses Point and Oyster Island. This figurative navigation beacon, cast in 1819 by Thomas Kirke in London, forms an important element of the maritime history of County Sligo. The sturdy construction of the podium attests to the high quality of the stone masonry while the cast-iron statue raises the interest of the beacon above the ordinary. · Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0
Landscape from Rosses Point, Sligo, Ireland
Landscape from Rosses Point, Sligo, Ireland · Photo: Giuseppe Peronato · CC BY-SA 2.5

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Freestanding, stone navigation beacon, erected 1821. Circular plan. Painted cast-iron statue of Royal Navy petty officer pointing on battered painted coursed ashlar limestone podium with moulded torus roll cut stone string course. Navigation light mounted to front of pedestal. Painted cast-iron access ladder set into channel formed in podium. Situated on Perch Rock between Rosses Point and Oyster Island.
This figurative navigation beacon, cast in 1819 by Thomas Kirke in London, forms an important element of the maritime history of County Sligo. The sturdy construction of the podium attests to the high quality of the stone masonry while the cast-iron statue raises the interest of the beacon above the ordinary.

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The sturdy construction of the podium attests to the high quality of the stone masonry while the cast-iron statue raises the interest of the beacon above the ordinary.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 32304007

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Pictures: Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Colin Park, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Willie Duffin, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Pampuco, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Bob Embleton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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