Galley Head Lighthouse is one of 70 lighthouses operated by the Commissioners of Irish Lights around the coast of Ireland and plays a v...

This was one of the lighthouses that I wasn’t going to bother with. It’s unused and in a sorry state. As I started illustrating the light...

Inishtearaght (the Western Island) is one of the Blasket Islands, the most westerly land in Europe apart from the nearby Foze Rocks and...

The Galway Civic trust are undertaking the restoration of Mutton Island Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage. A castle on the island was demo...

The short squat-looking lighthouse at Kilcredaun was built in 1827 . The light was converted to acetylene gas in 1929, allowing for it ...

Two lights were established on Oyster island in 1837 but the one you see now dates from 1893. It became a rear leading light with the m...

“I’m looking at the river, but I’m thinking of the sea.” A little digression today;  Randy Newsman’s words could have been writte...

Rathlin East lighthouse is the location from which the world’s first commercial wireless telegraphy link was established by employees o...

Straw Island is a small sandy island that lies at the approaches to the harbour of Cill Rónáin on Inishmore, the largest of the Aran ...

In 1837 the Drogheda Harbour Commissioners proposed that a lighthouse be built on Rockabill off Skerries, and they stated that the ship...

Inishtrahull, about six miles north of Malin Head, is the most northerly of Ireland's lighthouses and together with Tory Island the...

The lighthouse tower was originally built in 1806. The island was one of the last places in Ireland to be connected to the electric gri...