Straw Island Lighthouse

Straw Island Lighthouse
Kilronan, Ireland (IE)
This is an active aid to navigation on an islet of the same name (Irish: Oileán an Tuí) in Killeany Bay, NE of Inishmore in County Galway. Completed in 1878, it was the last of 4 lighthouses built in the 1800s on the Aran Islands. The commissioning of Straw Island marked the culmination of a 24-yr campaign by the local islanders to have a lighthouse for safe passage into Killeany Bay and the harbor at Kilronan.
This is an active aid to navigation on an islet of the same name (Irish: Oileán an Tuí) in Killeany Bay, NE of Inishmore in County Galway. Completed in 1878, it was the last of 4 lighthouses built in the 1800s on the Aran Islands. The commissioning of Straw Island marked the culmination of a 24-yr campaign by the local islanders to have a lighthouse for safe passage into Killeany Bay and the harbor at Kilronan.
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Links: en.wikipedia.org, mapcarta.com, www.lightphotos.net
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