Baltimore Beacon

Baltimore Beacon
Beacon with Sherkin Island and its lighthouse visible in distance

Type	navigational beacon
Location	Baltimore, County Cork
Coordinates	51°28′25″N 9°23′16″W / 51.47360°N 9.38779°W / 51.47360; -9.38779
Built	1848

The Baltimore Beacon is a white-painted stone beacon positioned high above the channel between the mainland and Sherkin Island near the entrance to the harbour at Baltimore, County Cork, Ireland.

The structure is approximately 50 feet (15 m) high and 15 feet (4.6 m) in diameter at the base, and is situated on the top of a cliff, itself 160 feet (49 m) in height.^[1] It is built of rubble stone into a tapered conical shape with a red-painted spherical metal finish on the top.^[2] It constitutes part of a series of lighthouses and beacons dotted around the Irish coast to assist in marine navigation.

The beacon is locally known as "Lot's Wife",^[2] after the Biblical woman turned into a pillar of salt.^[3] The beacon has become a recognizable part of Baltimore's landscape, and one of the area's defining landmarks.^[2]^[1] The structure is featured on photographs and paintings of Baltimore. Southern Star newspaper's column with news from Baltimore and the area was titled "From Baltimore Beacon".^[4] Local businesses adopted the beacon as a part of its name, with a notable example of Baltimore's now defunct Beacon Park Hotel. The feature is an attraction for tourists and day trip visitors, and "there is no end of people who get engaged",^[1] and even married^[5] there.

History

The beacon was built in 1848 after it had been noticed that an older warning beacon existing at the entrance of the Baltimore Harbour went into ruin.^[6]

The wreck of a 17-century ship HMS Looe lies at the base of the beacon cliff.^[6]

The decision to declassify the beacon as a navigational tool caused confusion in the 2010s as to who is the actual owner and as such should maintain the beacon, and in particular re-paint it in white.^[7]

View of Baltimore Beacon near Baltimore, Co. Cork, Ireland.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Baltimore Beacon is our 'Notre Dame' but is being neglected". The Southern Star. 18 May 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "The Beacon, BALTIMORE, Baltimore, CORK". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
^ lloydhegarty. "Baltimore Beacon". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
^ "From Baltimore Beacon". Southern Star. 26 October 1946.
^ "Clifftop wedding near Baltimore". Southern Star. 3 July 1999.
^ ^a ^b McCarthy, Kieran (2019). 50 Gems of West Cork. Amberley. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-4456-9239-5.
^ Keogh, Jackie (1 June 2019). "Petition puts the spotlight on shabby Baltimore Beacon in need of paint job". The Southern Star.

External links

Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Pete's Irish Lighthouses
[1]
General Lighthouse Authorities of UK and Ireland - Aids to Navigation Review 2010 - 2015
Report of the Sea and Inland Fisheries - 1881 see note on the need for a light at Baltimore harbour among other details
Baltimore Town - tourist information
K513 - Baltimore Beacon - photograph and information
Baltimore, Co. Cork - Wikishire
The Algiers Inn pub Baltimore history - shipwreck history

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County Donegal	Inishowen Inishtrahull Fanad Dunree Buncrana Tory Island Arranmore Ballagh Rocks Rathlin O'Birne Rotten Island St. John's
County Sligo	Blackrock Lower Rosses Metal Man Oyster Island
County Mayo	Broad Haven Eagle Island Blackrock Blacksod Bay Achillbeg Inishgort
County Galway	Slyne Head Cashla Bay Eeragh Straw Island Inisheer
County Clare	Blackhead Loop Head Kilcredaun Head Corlis Point Front Corlis Point Rear Scattery Island
County Kerry	Little Samphire Island Inishtearaght Cromwell Point Valentia Rear Valentia Front Skelligs
County Cork	Bull Rock Ardnakinna Castletown Directional Light Roancarrig Sheep's Head Mizen Head Crookhaven Copper Point Fastnet Rock Baltimore Beacon Galley Head Old Head of Kinsale Charlesfort Spit Bank Roche's Point Ballycotton Youghal
County Waterford	Mine Head Ballinacourty Point Dunmore East
County Wexford	Duncannon Hook Head Tuskar Rock
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County Dublin	Muglins Poolbeg North Bull North Bank Kish Bank Baily Howth Harbour Rockabill
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County Antrim	Blackhead Chaine Memorial The Maidens Rathlin East Rue Point Rathlin West
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