Selected: CO. CORK, BALLYCOTTON, LIGHTHOUSE
Name: | HALPIN, GEORGE [1] |
Building: | CO. CORK, BALLYCOTTON, LIGHTHOUSE |
Date: | 1848-1851 |
Nature: | New lighthouse. Contractor: W.& P. Brash, Cork. Apparatus by Sauter & Lemonier, Paris. Light first exhibited 1 Jun 1851. Cost: £11,749.17s.6d. Lofty belfry erected by George Kennedy, Gloucester St, Dublin. Cost: £357. Bell by Sheridan, Dublin. Cost: £229. |
Refs: | John S. Sloane, 'A History of the lighthouses of Ireland…IV', IB 20, 15 Jul 1880, 206; Bill Long, Bright light, white water (1993), 79 |