Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Lighthouse
Kilbaha South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbaha South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56087, -9.93266
- SMR number
- CL071-002----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This record is for the first lighthouse on Loop Head which was of stone-vaulted cottage type built about 1670. These cottages accommodated the light keeper and his family in two or three rooms and had an internal stone stairway between two of the rooms leading up to a platform on the roof where a coal burning brazier or chauffer was positioned. Part of the old cottage with its battered outside wall can still be seen near the light-keepers dwellings. The lighthouse fell into disuse in the latter part of the seventeenth century and was re-established in 1720. (Robinson 1988, 55-7)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 8 August 2016
References
Robinson, D. 1988 The Loop Head lighthouse. North Munster Archaeological Journal 30, 55-7.
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