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Loop Head Lighthouse

On the Clare coast. Manned continuously from 1670 to 1991. The last lightkeeper’s family kept a pet goose for fourteen years. It learned to ring the doorbell. When the keeper retired, the goose moved with them to a bungalow in Kilkee and lived another six.

Commissioners of Irish Lights

Location Co. Clare 52.559, -9.929

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