Located on the cliffs at the entrance to Youghal Bay, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland. A very accessible lighthouse from Cork City. We jumped on a bus which dropped us just a few minutes walk away from the lighthouse.
A beacon was first built here in 1202 and the light was under maintenance by the nuns of Chapel of St.Ann. That beacon was demolished in 1848 and the current lighthouse built from granite and put into use in 1852. It has an automated light that flashes every 2.5 seconds, reaching 17 miles across shore.
There's a wall surrounding the lighthouse and connecting building (a wall too high to climb) but walking around it was pretty cool, and there's diving cliffs at the bottom if you're into that kinda thing...we decided to stay dry, it was January after all! I spent some time working in an Internet cafe in Cork City, and became friendly with an electrician carrying out work there. He told me he knew someone who maintained this lighthouse and he could likely get me into the lighthouse! I took his number, but lost it of course...
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