Cork Harbour Lighthouse 插畫檔

The lighthouse on Roche’s Point, Cork Harbour, Cork, Ireland, in front of the telegraph station which belonged to the London & South of Ireland Direct Telegraph Company. The London & South of Ireland Direct Telegraph Company installed overhead wires from Wexford to Cork and from Abermawr to Milford in southern Wales, where they connected up with circuits on the Great Western Railway to London (March 1862). Cork Harbour Lighthouse was first erected in 1817 and was replaced in 1835 with the tower in the engraving. A bell was added in 1864. From “The Illustrated London News” dated Saturday April 12th, 1862. “The Illustrated London News” was the world’s first illustrated weekly newspaper and was first published in 1842 by Herbert Ingram. There appears to be a lifeboat in the foreground.