Warren Point revisited
Warren Point (Photo by Chris Newman) Warrenpoint co. Down is a small town on the northern shore of Carlingford Lough and has no further involvement with this article. Warren Point co. Donegal, on the other hand, is not even a small village. It is merely the point where a small headland hits the Foyle estuary. It is situated alongside the fairway of the 12th hole of a golf course and the only building on it is a small lighthouse. In the 1850s, the Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners, as was, finally got their act together and started erecting lights from the city all the way up to the mouth of the Foyle estuary. Well, almost to its mouth. The two Inishowen lights were deemed to be sea lights and thus under the jurisdiction of the Dublin Ballast Board but the next light southwards, 2.4kms (1.5 miles) upriver, Warren Point, was at the full extent of the Commissioners' jurisdiction. A lighthouse was built here in 1861 to provide a link in the chain between Inishowen and Redcastl...