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Ireland's most famous lighthouse Fastnet built by Cornish

Standing sentinel over the rock the Irish call Carraig Aonair (lone rock), is the Fastnet lighthouse, an iconic structure built in the early 1900s. ....

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The lights in the dark | Cork Independent


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Mon 26 Jul 2021, 4:08 AM
999b. Public open day at Roches Point Lighthouse, 4 June 2017 – celebrating 200 years since its construction. The event was organised by the Cork Harbour Heritage Alliance in association with the Commissioners of Irish Lights. (picture: Kieran McCarthy)
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My new book ‘The Little book of Cork Harbour’ has recently been published by The History Press. Following on from last week, below is another snippet from the book– focussing on some aspects of Roches Point Lighthouse and Daunt Rock lightship in the harbour.
Roches Point Lighthouse
Around 1640-1650 AD, the Roche family purchased the Fitzgerald estate (approx. 1,500 acres) from Edmund Fitzgerald of Ballymaloe and lived for many centuries at Trabolgan. Roches Point at the mouth of Cork Harbour is named after ....

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