Survey Data
Reg No
31312317
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Lighthouse
Date
1845 - 1850
Coordinates
119531, 248990
Date Recorded
29/11/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-bay two-stage "lighthouse", built 1847, on a circular plan. Now disused. Set on pier extending into lake.
Appraisal
A lakeshore "lighthouse" erected by Charles Lynch DL (d. 1897) representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of south County Mayo. NOTE: Although traditionally cited as a late eighteenth-century "improvement" of the Ballycurrin House estate, quoting a date stone ("1772") on the adjacent boathouse, the "lighthouse" does not appear on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1838; published 1840) and an accompanying date stone ("1847") indicates a period of construction coinciding with the height of the Great Famine (1845-9).