Historic lighthouse hopes for bright future ahead as tourist attraction

THE doors of the Loop Head lighthouse overlooking the Atlantic in west Clare were opened to the public yesterday for the first time — 341 years after the first lighthouse was built.

Historic lighthouse hopes for bright future ahead     as   tourist attraction

Yesterday, ex-lighthouse keeper Brendan Garvey said the move to open the lighthouse as a tourist attraction was ideal.

He closed the door on the lighthouse on March 28, 1991 before the system was automated.

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