Architecture Notes

Event ID 845792

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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Point of Ayre lighthouse is situated at the N end of the Isle of Man.

70ft high, circular in design built in 1818 with a small additional light built immediately to the N in 1888. The engineer for the first lighthouse was Robert Stevenson and for the later smaller one, D A Stevenson.

Light is of the dioptric refraction method.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), May 2005.