Breezin’ past the teardrop of Ireland

FASTNET Lighthouse, one of Ireland’s most remarkable structures, is normally left to the birds to wheel past, and for fish to shoal around.

Today, thousands of people will troop past it.

On a jagged tooth of shale rock a few miles off Ireland’s south coast, the lighthouse is deserving of the utmost respect, for its beauty, for its construction history, for the sheer elemental danger of its location, just for its existence, really. The lighthouse beacon and building marvel is one of the least visited of any Irish iconic structures.