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LIGHTHOUSE ACCOMMODATION isn’t exactly common across Ireland. But thanks to Irish Landmark Trust, you can actually stay in the renovated and refurbished Wicklow Head Lighthouse, the Trust’s first restoration project.
Built in the 1780s, the lighthouse was once one of two towers, explains Irish Landmark CEO Mary O’Brien. The first tower was demolished in the early 1800s when the original 20 tallow candles were found to be fogged in too often to be of use as a lighthouse.
The second tower was preserved in order to maintain the landmark in the area, but in the 1830s the wooden interior of the tower was struck by lightning and burned.
When the Trust took it on in 1996, says O’Brien, “it was an empty void, and accumulated bird droppings reached the height of the second floor.”
Needless to say, the bird droppings have been removed and the integrity of the lighthouse has been restored to make quite a stunning holiday accommodation that has been available since 1997.
The Irish Landmark Trust constructed six octagonal rooms, each on their own floor with stunning views from every window.
“A steel stairway wraps around internally and each room is entered off this stairway,” O’Brien explains. “The arched windows are set into walls which are at least a metre thick.”
Following 109 steps to the top, the progression of rooms as you go up is as follows: lobby and guest cloakroom; double bedroom; bathroom; double bedroom; sitting room, and finally up to the kitchen.
When you aren’t staring off toward the Irish Sea, the seats in the deep windows are great places to relax and read. The Lighthouse’s location puts you within easy driving distance to Glendalough and Wicklow Town, and there is even a bus route to each from the Lighthouse, making it a restful and relaxing spot for a staycation here at home.
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Good dog!!
@shellakybooky: Should have set the dogs on him full stop……he might think twice doing it again when he sees half his legs are gone…..
@shellakybooky: The gardai have confirmed that he is indeed a good boy, yes he is, yes he is.
@shellakybooky: give that dog a bone
Probably 150 previous convictions and get off with a warning.
@Noel Barnes: I don’t think so considering the Garda vehicle was rammed. A nice sentence to follow.
@Peter D W Clancy: 3 year sentence with 18 months suspended possibly. Our justice system is very lenient in the majority of cases.
@Cork Truck Driver: That is a much greater sentence than this old chestnut: “get off with a warning”, which is trotted out over and over again online by people for some reason or another.
Laser, henceforth known as the goodest boy, was rewarded with a steak and many belly rubs.
@Terrence Edwards: best boy
ramming a Garda squad car ,or any car deliberately should be treated as attempted murder -especially an attack on members of our national police force. well done to doggy Laser &all the guards involved in this operation. It’s over to the DPP &the courts now &hopefully they’ll do their jobs well too &get this thug off our streets but don’t anyone hold your breath. .the judge will probably recommend him for a nobel peace prize
@Dean Anderson: The getaway car was abandoned, so either it was a stolen vehicle or one of the hundreds of older, untaxed & uninsured cars left littering the cities & countryside.
Cannot understand why the motor taxation service do not pursue the registered owners of vehicles for unpaid road tax, & seize them if they are not renewed.
Then these cars would not be available for criminal use, joy riding by youths, save society a lot of grief ,law enforcement time & cost.
As for cost, the Motor Insurers Bureau also bears the cost of uninsured vehicle damages, & adds that to to policy premiums of compliant drivers.
It is a disgraceful example of poor & lazy state administration, which is content to operate on a cheque in the post culture, not bothering to run it properly.
Second time this year!
@David Carroll: lol, quality !
@David Carroll: they should really settle on a name. Poor Lazar/Laser
Hope Laser bit him on the Langer!
Someone in the area tipping off these guys on where to break in. Should be hauled in if identified. Some chance of that happening though.
@ianglen: looks like a utility worker, definite plan, in and out, only looking for 3 things.
Another valued member of a minority Irish culture.
Possibly from a horse slaughter house…..
@Thomas McMillan: Not a’tall boss.
Some dogs are great at rooting out rats
Pikey $cum at it again !??
Is he a Belgian Groenendael?
@Edmund Murphy: Garda unit says Belgian Malinois
@Edmund Murphy: yep Malinois
Turner and hooch !
Woof Woof, good doggie
Slow News Day?
@Bi88les: don’t be a miserable tw*t
@Dublinlife: I think it’s too late for that…
Gardai are looking for men in muddy clothes. Go into any pub in Cork and you’ll find loads of then
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