Located at the end of the South Pier of Arklow harbour, which has been very ineffectively barricaded off by low railings. Rusting and graffiti ridden, this is located on the concrete pier head, which is also ineffectively barricaded off from the lower level.
Moored on the North Quay in Arklow, this is starting to look a sorry sight with a lot of rust prevalent. The site is open, with yellow stickers on the side of the boat warning people to Keep Out.
Okay, not the complete Lightship Albatross but the light tower and lantern, which seems to be enclosed in the grounds of a new plush waterside apartment block. The rest of the boat is apparently in Pigeon House Harbour in Dublin. I tried to find it but despite numerous enquiries, nobody on Pigeon House Road seemed to know where Pigeon House Harbour was.
The active lighthouse is cut into the cliff, not really visible until you walk around the headland from the other lights. Steps - with a chain across them - lead down to the complex which appears to consist of whitewashed cottages and offices
Closer to the sea than its taller neighbour, this light lasted till 1865 till the fog problem made it useless. Reached by a winding path from the top lighthouse.
The oldest of the three lighthouses on Wicklow Head, apparently, like its nearest neighbour, built too high up on the cliff and liable to be enveloped by fog! According to locals, this octagonal tower is now split up into holiday apartments, presumably one on each floor. Reached by a private road (with the obligatory Private Property, Do not enter or you will be shot notices on the gate)
Not exactly sure why this is called the East Pier. Wicklow is on a north-south coastline, so I reckon this light is on the South Pier. These pictures taken from the end of the North (West) Pier. Pier not very long.
After 15 minutes driving around Dublin Port in the rain trying to find this lighthouse, I gave up and opted instead for a picture from the South Bank of the Liffey.
Can you see it??????
Right! I am now staking a claim for gobshyte of the year.
This is the newer of the two end-of-pier Howth lighthouses, built on a bit of a spur from the end of the old pier. Again, no graffiti, possibly because local vandals can't be bothered to walk that far.
A longer walk out to the end of the pier at Howth than Skerries but you get rewarded by not one but two lighthouses. This is the older, no-longer active lighthouse with keepers' cottage attached, unpainted, but the stone is very clean and there is no graffiti, despite it being readily accessible. There are even window boxes on the windows of the cottage. A plaque dates this to 1817.
And, revisiting further in July 2009, this time with my camcorder which has better magnification than my camera, the picture below was taken from the harbour at Rush, while the one above was taken from the sea front at Skerries.
Further to the previous Rockabill entry, this photo was taken from the green area on Skerries Head. The lighthouse is the vertical thing sticking up from the island!
Not particularly one of the more exciting lights I've come across. Basically this is just a square white box at the end of the shortish pier, the light facing outwards (naturally)
Another spectacular failure to locate a lighthouse. The Lighthouse Directory says it is "located at the end of a rubblestone jetty on the north side of the entrance of the River Boyne." Preliminary mapwork was not hopeful as there appeared to be no roads going anywhere near the entrance of the Boyne on the north bank. I drove to the village of Baltray and then down a track, which was really one big pothole interspersed with little bits of laneway.
Okay, hunt the lighthouse. According to the Lighthouse directory, the light in Clogherhead is "mounted on a two storey concrete and metal pier building" Well, after accosting two early morning hikers on Clogherhead Strand - seeing nothing that resembled a light - I was informed that the pier was a mile further down the road.
