Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, VALENTIA ISLAND, LIGHTHOUSE

Name: HALPIN, GEORGE [1]
Building: CO. KERRY, VALENTIA ISLAND, LIGHTHOUSE
Date: 1837-1842
Nature: New lighthouse (fixed beacon) in NE part of island on site of Cromwell's Fort some of which retained. Cost: £10,450.17s.6d. Light first shown 1 Feb 1841, a year before work was complete.
Refs: J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 789; John S. Sloane, 'A History of the lighthouses of Ireland…IV', IB 22, 15 Jun 1880, 191; Bill Long, Bright Light, White Water