Lighthouses of Ireland beautify coastlines and save lives
The actual and legendary beauty of the Emerald Isle attracts visitors traditionally by sea and, since the twentieth century, by air. Various-sized freight, government, passenger, and private vessels still brave Ireland’s rough coastal waters despite the varying currents and temperatures of:
• the Atlantic Ocean on the west;
• the Celtic Sea on the south;
• the Irish Sea on the east;
• Saint George’s Channel on the southeast.
Arrival by sea historically and presently can be a choppy, wild ride whose successful transit is made less stressfully and more purposefully by Éire’s vigilant chain of:
• coastal bonfires during prehistoric times;
• coastal towers during the Roman occupation;
• iron cauldrons during the Dark Ages;
• lighthouses from the twelfth century onward.
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Email: [email protected]
Fax: +353 – 1 – 271 – 5566
Physical address: Commissioners of Irish Lights, Harbour Road, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland Telephone: +353 – 1 – 271 – 5400
Website: http://www.cil.ie
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Maureen and I were talking a vacation in Donegal near Lough Switched Swilly,some miles from Fanad Head.We drove up to visit it.
Thank you, Frank, for stopping by!
The lighthouses of Ireland are among my favorites in terms of film and real life!
The Commissioners of Irish Lights website has an article on Fanad Head Lighthouse. The article identifies Fanad Head as one of 12 lighthouses marketed as Great Lighthouses of Ireland. The above-mentioned tourist initiative website mentions the availability of 2-guest house 1, 2-guest house 3 and 2- to 4-guest house 2 weekends in January, February and March; and November and December.
Were you and your wife at Fanad Head for a day visit or a longer stay there or somewhere else in the area?
Maureen and I were up at Fanad Head a few years ago. It is a wild and beautiful place.
Thank you for visiting, WriterArtist!
Me too, I love the internet-available images that convey the enduring beauty of my favorite Lighthouses of Ireland.
Two of my favorites are Fastnet, known as the teardrop of Ireland because of its being the last sight emigrants had of their beloved emerald-isle home, and Hook, with its mysterious room.
Love the pictures of Lighthouses of Ireland. You sure have put lot of effort in bringing them together. Some of them must be existing till today and they look beautiful from the coast.
frankbeswick, Guido for any Italian and Paddy for anyone from Ireland can be used affectionately and -- unfortunately -- mildly ironically and outright condescendingly on this side of the pond.
frankbeswick, Thank you for the insights. Is there any interpretation as to why a form of Welsh was spoken in southwest Scotland? That makes me think, in a reverse way, of Fleance in the Shakespearean play Macbeth leaving Scotland to establish royal family lines after making it to Wales.
The term paddy might be used in a racist sense or not. It can be used affectionately as a nickname or in belittling manner. I was unaware of the usage of the term Guido.
Alfsigr could be Norse, but it could also be Lallands Scots. Lallands and is was a version of Scots closely related to Northern English. The term alfs could be Norse or Anglo-Saxon,although ending a word with r used as a vowel is characteristically Norse. We need to realise that not all Scotland spoke Gaelic, which was the language of the Highlands. Lallands was spoken in south of Scotland and Cumbric, a version of Welsh,in the south West. This means that we need to accept that non-Gaelic etymology is not necessarily an intrusive Norse element, but possibly a native element derived from local languages.
frankbeswick, Thank you for the information about Paddy's Milestone, nickname for Ailsa Craig. Encyclopedia Britannica online describes Ailsa as originating from Gaelic words for "Fairy Rock." Scottish Girls Names online gives Alfsigr ("elf victory") as the origins in the "language of the Vikings" (Old Norse?). What is the interpretation on your side of the pond?
In another direction, Is "Paddy's milestone" emotion-laden or not? It, just as Guido for an Italian, may be quite insulting on this side of the pond.