Managing Organization:
Commissioners of Irish Lights
Website: http://www.cil.ie
Tower Height: 60
Height of Focal Plane: 204
Characteristic and Range: Red flash every 5 seconds.
This light is operational
Date Established: 1917
Date Present Tower Built: 1917
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? No.
Directions:
Rathlin Island can be reached by ferry from Ballycastle. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds maintains a bird observatory near the lighthouse; see www.rspb.org.uk/birds/brilliant/rathlin.asp
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