Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/01/067

Address :
Marine navigation Beacon (Gowland Beacon) Granagh (off coast) Portaferry Co Down

Townland:
Granagh

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
08/03/2006 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Light House/ Navigation Mark

Former Use
Light House/ Navigation Mark

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
206/16

IG Ref:
J6004 4842

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Owner Category

Miscellaneous

Exterior Description And Setting

Small navigation beacon set on a small rocky out crop/island at the entrance to Strangford Lough, on the shores of Granagh Townland, just south of Portaferry. The beacon is one of a pair the other on the opposite coast of the Lough, and resembles a small round tower, about c.8m in height and tapering from c.2m at its base to a small [?]light at the top c.0.5m in width. Technically this structure may not be a ‘beacon’ but a ‘lighthouse’, as it appears to be topped with a light.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This 'beacon’ may have been constructed in the mid to later 1800s and was probably originally oil fired. The authors of this survey were informed by the Commission of Irish Lights that this ‘beacon’ should be classed as a ‘lighthouse’ because it is topped with a light. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS/6/3/32/2 OS maps, 1st rev., 1860, Down sheet 32 Secondary sources 1 Information supplied by the Commission of Irish Lights (16 Lower Pembroke St., Dublin 2)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation J. Setting

Historic Interest

Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance X. Local Interest

Evaluation

One of a limited number of navigation beacons or small ‘lighthouse’, of possible mid to later 19th century construction and still in use.

General Comments

Date of Survey

08 August 1997