Blackrock Island Lighthouse

It is a 50 foot high round stone tower with lantern and gallery attached to a single storey keeper s house.

Blackrock island lighthouse.

A narrow gauge tramway was laid from these quarries over the shoulder of the hill and down to the harbour through the compound of the irish lights dwellings of the keepers attached to blackrock lighthouse which is 20km west of blacksod. Mayo and marks the entrance to the stunning blacksod bay. Fayerweather island black rock harbor lighthouse black rock harbor with its deep port sheltered by fayerweather island was a developing shipping center in the eighteenth century and it seemed only natural to build a lighthouse on the island to guide ships into the harbor. Black rock harbor is sheltered by fayerweather island which made the island an ideal place for a lighthouse to mark the harbor entrance in 1808.

Blackrock lighthouse the lighthouse on blackrock island was constructed in 1864. The group left england on the feast day of st. Clement patron saint of mariners and so bestowed the saint s name on the island. Nynorthcoasters wrote a review jul 2020.

This dramatic lighthouse is made even more special with breath taking views of achill island and blackrock island which you might remember as the site of the tragic r116 helicopter crash. Clements island was the site of the first landing of colonists in maryland an event that occurred on march 25 1634. Thank you for touring rock island lighthouse with clayton island tours. The subject was referred to inspector george halpin who in his report agreed that slyne head warranted marking but suggested eagle island in preference to blackrock.

Perhaps you will join us again for a tour when the lighthouse tower is allowed to reopen after covid. In 1830 the coastguard approached the corporation for improving the port of dublin for lights to be placed on slyne head and blackrock north of achill island. Blacksod lighthouse is situated at the end of the incredibly beautiful mullet peninsula in erris co. Blackistone island replica lighthouse called maryland s plymouth rock by some st.

The lighthouse is painted white.