Where is Haulbowline Lighthouse?

Haulbowline Lighthouse is in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (postcode BT34 4LN).

How do I get to Haulbowline Lighthouse?

Drivers can use postcode BT34 4LN.

Is Haulbowline Lighthouse a listed building?

Haulbowline Lighthouse is officially recognised as Grade B+ listed building listed.

Is Haulbowline Lighthouse free to visit?

Yes, Haulbowline Lighthouse is free to enter.

How do I get to Haulbowline Lighthouse?

Drivers can navigate to postcode BT34 4LN. It sits within the South Down parliamentary constituency.

Lighthouses · Northern Ireland

Haulbowline Lighthouse

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Haulbowline Lighthouse — lighthouse in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Typical visit: 30 min–1 h

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Haulbowline Lighthouse is a working or historic lighthouse on the United Kingdom coast. Records date its origin to 1824. Constructed primarily of stone. Heritage designation: Grade B+ listed building. Wikidata describes it as: "lighthouse in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland". Coordinates: 54.0141°, -6.0801°.

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From the Wikipedia article

The Haulbowline Lighthouse is an active 19th century lighthouse. Described as an "elegant, tapering stone tower" it is located at the entrance to Carlingford Lough, near Cranfield Point in County Down, Northern Ireland. The lighthouse was built on the eastern part of the Haulbowline rocks, one of a number of navigation hazards at the seaward end of Carlingford Lough, which include a notable rocky shoal or bar across the mouth of the lough. The multi-purpose light was designed to help mark the rocks and, when first built, the depth of water over the bar, as well as acting as a landfall light for ships entering from the Irish Sea. Associated with the lighthouse are the leading lights at Green Island and Vidal Bank which mark the safe channel along Carlingford Lough, with Haulbowline displaying a reserve light in case of problems with these leading lights.

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Background

History

Completed in 1824, the lighthouse was designed by George Halpin following complaints made to the Ballast Board, the predecessor organisation of the Commissioners of Irish Lights that the existing shore-based Cranfield Point Lighthouse was inadequate in marking both the channel and the treacherous rocks at the lough entrance, many of which were only revealed at low tide. The poorly positioned light at Cranfield Point, had also been built too close to the eroding coastline, and in 1860 it finally succumbed to the sea, and collapsed onto the beach. The keeper's cottages which survived, were subsequently used by the staff and families of Haulbowline until 1922, when new houses were constructed…

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Coordinates: 54.0141, -6.0801
District: Newry, Mourne and Down
Postcode: BT34 4LN
Parliamentary constituency: South Down
Established: 1824

Sources

wikidata: Q17861631 (CC0)
wikipedia: Haulbowline Lighthouse (CC BY-SA 4.0)
commons: Haulbowline Lighthouse - geograph.org.uk - 497381.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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