Hog's Head lighthouse?
View over Ballinskelligs Bay from Hog's Head It is over two years ago now that I wrote about the lighthouse at Caherdaniel in county Kerry and discussed the possibility of its existence. The basis for my wondering was an article written by one-time Irish Lights chief engineer, John Swan Sloane in the Irish Builder that described the great Irish lighthouses of ancient history. In it, Sloane says " the great lighthouse at Cahirdaniel was perhaps in its day the most famous. James deCourcy O'Connell, in 1548, got a grant in Parliament for its maintenance, with certain allowances and emoluments from the many passing ships going coastwise to Galway, bearing the rich wines and merchandise of Spain to the City of the Tribes, It was also particularly and well looked after by the monks of Ballinskelligs, at the time frequent visitors for penance and otherwise to the larger Skellig Rock ... This ancient lighthouse tower is quite unknown to the authorities of the present day ... lik...