Valentia Lighthouse
by Rob Hemphill
Title
Valentia Lighthouse
Artist
Rob Hemphill
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Valentia Island lighthouse as seen from the famous old Valentia slate quarry is one of the Great Lighthouses of Ireland. A tour of the lighthouse at Cromwell’s Point is a must if you ever visit the island. Knightstown is the main town and is a few miles from this location.
Valentia Lighthouse at Cromwell Point is maintained by the Commissioners of Irish Lights and is a harbour light to guide vessels from the sea and lead them through the northern entrance of Valentia Harbour past Harbour Rock.
The fossilised footprints of a dinosaur are visible only a short distance from the lighthouse. A Tetrapod (the first four-legged animal with a backbone) stepped from water onto land here over 300 million years ago.
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Featured in the following FAA Groups:
"World Landscape Lovers of Art" 03/12/2020
"Travel Art" 03/09/2020
"Exploration Photography" 02/25/2020
"Land and Sea" 02/20/2020
"Water Forms" 02/16/2020
"International Images" 02/15/2020
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February 12th, 2020
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