Crookhaven Lighthouse
| Crookhaven Lighthouse | |
 Crookhaven Lighthouse | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | V81622620 |
| Location: | 51°28’35"N, 9°42’17"W |
| Characteristics | |
| Height: | 46 feet |
| Tower shape: | Cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern |
| Tower marking: | white tower and lantern |
| Light: | LFl WR 8s. |
| Focal height: | 66 feet |
| Range: | white: 13 nautical miles red: 11 nautical miles |
| Admiralty No.: | A6450 |
| History | |
| Built 1843 | |
| First lit: | 1843 |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Commissioners of Irish Lights |
| Website: | Crookhaven Lighthouse |
Crookhaven Lighthouse stands on Rock Island Point, at the mouth of the harbour of Crookhaven in County Cork, Ireland's southernmost village. The lighthouse is therefore the southernmost on the Irish mainland.
The lighthouse is principally a harbour light for Crookhaven, lighting the entrance and also the passage up to harbour. Rock Island Point where it stands is at the north side of the haven entrance.
History
Approval for the new lighthouse was given on 31 October 1838, after a petition from the local boatmen and fishermen. The petition to the Coast Guard said that the Alderman Rock would be the proper position for the light, but the Board's surveyor, Mr Halpin rejected that location, considering the rock to be too fragile to bear the lighthouse, and so recommended Rock Island Point. The lighthouse and ancillary buildings were completed in 1844, but the light was first lit before then, on 4 August 1843.
The shore dwellings for the families of the Lightkeepers of the Fastnet Rock until that light was automated.