It’s the nearest port to Scotland on mainland Ireland
the structure was damaged in a storm six months into the build and replaced with a more conventional tower
Built in 1872 beside a now disused fort
established in 1851
The current 19th-century tower is the most recent in a series of lighthouses that have been built in the islands
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