Baltimore Beacon

Coordinates: 51°28′22″N 9°23′16″W / 51.472883°N 9.387646°W / 51.472883; -9.387646

The Baltimore Beacon is a white-painted stone beacon at the entrance to the harbour at Baltimore, County Cork, Ireland. The beacon was built at the order of the British government following the 1798 Rebellion. It was part of a series of lighthouses and beacons dotted around the Irish coast, forming a warning system.

The beacon is locally known as "Lot's Wife", after the Biblical woman turned into a pillar of salt.

View of Baltimore Beacon near Baltimore, Co. Cork, Ireland.

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Irish lighthouses

Lighthouses are shown in anti-clockwise sequence beginning from the north and proceeding west, south, east, and back to north.

County Donegal	Inishowen Inishtrahull Fanad Dunree Buncrana Tory Island Arranmore Ballagh Rocks Rathlin O'Birne Rotten Island St. John's

County Sligo	Blackrock Lower Rosses Point Metal Man Oyster Island

County Mayo	Broadhaven Eagle Island Blackrock Blacksod Bay Achillbeg Inishgort

County Galway	Slyne Head Cashla Bay Eeragh Straw Island Inisheer

County Clare	Blackhead Loop Head Kilcredaun Head Corlis Point Front Corlis Point Rear Scattery Island

County Kerry	Little Samphire Island Inishtearaght Cromwell Point Valentia Rear Valentia Front Skelligs

County Cork	Bull Rock Ardnakinna Castletown Directional Light Roancarrig Sheep's Head Mizen Head Crookhaven Copper Point Fastnet Rock Baltimore Beacon Galley Head Old Head of Kinsale Charlesfort Spit Bank Roches Point Ballycotton Youghal

County Waterford	Mine Head Ballinacourty Point Dunmore East

County Wexford	Duncannon Hook Head Tuskar Rock

County Wicklow	Wicklow Head

County Dublin	Muglins Poolbeg Kish Bank Baily Howth Head Rockabill

County Louth	Dundalk

County Down	Green Island Vidal Bank Haulbowline St. John's Point Angus Rock Donaghadee Mew Island

County Antrim	Blackhead Chaine Tower The Maidens Rathlin East Rue Point Rathlin West

Coastal landforms of Ireland Commissioners of Irish Lights Lightvessels in Ireland List of islands of Ireland List of lighthouses in Ireland

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Baltimore Beacon

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