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Hook Head lighthouse for 800 years shows the way sailors on the southeast coast of Ireland, which makes it the oldest active lighthouse in the world. In fact, it is very likely that the first light lit here centuries ago. The Welsh monk Dubhán the fifth century monastery built just south of the present lighthouse.
People say that a Dubhán lit a beacon to protect mariners sailing to the port of Waterford and he kept running for more than seven centuries. Additionally, gave the place its name - dubhán the Irish word for hook (fishing hook)
The monks were still there in 1172. year when normandski Lord Raymond LeGrod built the first tower. He was later enlarged by building a new tower that it is actually used to surround - spiral staircase leading to the top are the walls of the old and the new tower.
The 1641st monks left the monastery and went off the lighthouse. What followed was a series of shipwrecks and after 25 years, by order of King Charles II, the lighthouse back on and since then mainly constantly alzak illuminated
This is a phrase ("because - at all costs") first uttered Cromwell when he vowed to take the port of Waterford "by Hook or by Crook". Crook Head is the opposite of Hook Head at the mouth of the River Suir and costly dam entrance to the harbor on both sides. He swore and he succeeded. Power lighthouse
Throughout the centuries have replaced the various methods of power Hook Head. The light produced by the monks was probably an ordinary fire. They burned wood and all they could take advantage of. When the tower was built, the fire is located in the lantern at the top where it was protected from the weather, and the smoke is emitted through the chimney which allowed the fire to burn better.
By the 1790th things have modernized and is set down the oil lamps which glow pospješivan and directed lenses and deflectors. Oil lamps were, with occasional improvements in lenses, held up in 1871. when he began to use coal gas.
Coal gas 1911th replaced with paraffin which was used until in 1971. when they began to use struja.Kako going out, it was necessary to maintain the flame until in 1977. lighthouse keepers and their families lived in homes in komplesku lighthouse. Mentioned is the lighthouse has become a lot easier alzak to maintain and even though it is a keeper burned, did not have to constantly be there. The year 1996. lights are automated and the lighthouse keepers are no longer needed. Visit Hook Head lighthouse
The lighthouse is open to visitors every day of the year, in summer a little longer. The best way to get there is the southern road from Waterford to Passage East. From there, a short ferry going to Ballyhack, a lighthouse alzak is visible almost alzak as soon as it comes out of the port.
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