Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Ferris Point Lighthouse
Ballylumford, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Ferris Point Lighthouse, Ferris Bay Road, Islandmagee, Larne, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Ballylumford
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.85164, -5.78984
- Date of survey
- 19 September 1997
- HB reference
- HB06/04/016
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
This building has been demolished and replaced by a new lighthouse Described in the first survey in 1970 as 'Lighthouse and ancillary buildings. The circular lighthouse base rises to a corbelled railed walkway around the housing. Main ancillary buildings are two-storey with rendered walls and flat roofs below parapets and moulded cornices. Sashed vertically devided windows are set in plain eaved surrounds, pedimented on the ground floor.
Historical information
Appears on OS map of 1857. Built 1835-9 to designs of George Halpin, inspector of lighthouses. Tower demolished in 1976 following the completion of a new tower in 1975; ancillary buildings also replaced. The building was recorded as a monument, SMR no. ANT41:25.
References - Primary
1. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 10: Parishes of County Antrim III (Belfast, 1991), pp 21 and 79.
2. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 41.
Secondary
1. W.A. McCutcheon, The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland (Belfast, 1980), plate 146.6.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Demolished and replaced by a new lighthouse.
Nearby in the register
- Clyde Valley MemorialMemorialunder 1 mi
- Princess Victoria MemorialMemorialunder 1 mi
- Chaine MemorialLight House/ Navigation Markunder 1 mi
- 45-53 Ferris Bay RoadHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.