Hook Heritage Ltd., Hook Head, Co., Wexford, Ireland

The Lonely Old Lighthouse

Eileen Wickham revisits Hook Head and reflects on a way of life now passed into history.

THE Hook Head Lighthouse, majestic and proud on the tip of the Hook Peninsula, Co Wexford, now stands alone as if in mourning for the Lighthouse Keepers and their families no longer there. I had to visit Campile recently with a colleague who had never been to that part of Wexford, so I gave her a guided tour and took her to one of my favourite places, Hook Lighthouse, where I lived for three years with my husband who was a Lighthouse Keeper there; where my third child was born ...more...