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Better known as Crookhaven Lighthouse www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20914...

... Towards the west end of the peninsula is a terrace of houses built in 1907 as a coastguard station, now converted to private holiday accommodation; this replaced an earlier range of buildings erected in the early 19th century, when Crookhaven was a centre both for legitimate coastal shipping and for smuggling activity. ...

From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Island_(Ireland)

I think it is Mary Poppins on the rocks; she breezed in with a change of the wind.

via Ken Dowdall The scaffolding surrounds a light keepers house, built 1896 www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20914...

... Every year keepers had to paint the lantern inside and out, the gallery, gates, iron fences, gutters and downpipes, oil tanks and flagstaffs. The annual whitewashing, cleaning out of “ashpits, cesspools, etc” was to be carried out as soon as possible after the 1st of April. The cottage also had to be maintained in ship-shape condition as unannounced inspections were regular as well as the annual Commissioners’ inspection. The keepers were provided with an allowance of eight tons of Scotch coal or seven tons of English coal every year. The keeper here could have expected to earn 3 shillings per day in 1905. ... From - crookhavenlighthouse.ie/about-crookhaven-lighthouse/

I'd be thinking the the lady should be destined for the Royal College of Surgeons, either to repair her bones or to put her under Bergin's microscope to see if she's been photoshopped! Although not clear to us there may be path which runs down the left of picture and even to the rocks below. In all events any woman living here would surely be confident of her way around.

Tonight's bedtime reading is A treatise on the theory of screws. Or perhaps the earlier work Theory of screws: a study in the dynamics of a rigid body

Worth 1,000 words ...

See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stawell_Ball

My favourite Robert Stawell Ball article is "Further development of the relations between impulsive screws and instantaneous screws..."

But all joking about impulsive screws aside, Ball was a fascinating man, and we're very lucky to have his photos at Library Towers:

Ball was a very talented amateur photographer. His membership until 1911 of the Commissioners of Irish Lights inspection committee that circumnavigated the Irish coast each year gave him the opportunity to capture many splendid images, not only of lighthouses and other navigational facilities, but also of everyday life in the more remote coastal areas. Many of these photographs are held in the National Photographic Archive (NLI).

(from Anne Dolan's life of Sir Robert Stawell Ball in the Dictionary of Irish Biography -- full life here)

Deirge Del I can't wait to read both!

Lots of history and details -
www.irishlights.ie/tourism/our-lighthouses/tuskar-rock.aspx

Here are the keepers in 1901:
James Howlin, Frederick Curling and Joseph J Sweeny

Howlin and Curling are both married, will look for wives ashore.

Looking great in 2019 via john holden

a squint horizon always pains my photographers eye :-) rolling with the deck