Tags: Lighthouse, Tower.
Blacksod Lighthouse (Gaelic: Fód Dubh) is situated at the southern end of the Mullet Peninsula Erris County Mayo. The lighthouse was built in 1864 by one of the leading merchants in Belmullet at that time Bryan Carey.The lighthouse is made of local granite blocks which are believed to have come from close by Termon Hill which is an isolated granite outcrop of high quality granite on the peninsula.The keeper’s house is a two storey square building which has always been unpainted.