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Flame Keeper instal the new2/18/2024 It is normally a very quiet, benign rock, he says but nature can unleash its full fury betimes. It changed the whole face of Bantry in that period.” He says the arrival of supertankers to Bantry Bay was an incredible sight: “It was like an entire city. The antics of a small tern population was an entertaining diversion he says, though in recent years they have been ousted by seagulls. and not out on the rock.įor leisure Gerald would swim in the sea at the steps in front of the lighthouse or in a small pool on the island. Originally the families lived out on Roancarrigmore, he says, but were brought ashore in the late 1800s under a rule which dictated that all children had to be educated in schools. He went on to serve as assistant lighthouse keeperon Fastnet Rock and Bull Rock and wasstationed at over 20 lighthouses in all. Gerald Butler was one such - a super-numerary in the early 1970s working towards his full qualifications. In 1891, 11 people resided on the island, lighthouse keepers, staff and their families, but over the ensuing decades it was usually home to just two people for short terms.
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