Blacksod Lighthouse

Connacht · Ireland

Blacksod Lighthouse, Ireland
Photo: James Emmans, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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A square granite tower built into a keeper's dwelling on the Mullet Peninsula, first lit in 1866. Its weather readings famously helped set the date of the D-Day landings in June 1944.

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