Point of Ayr – Talacre

Point of Ayr lighthouse

Point of Ayr/Talacre (Goleudy’r Parlwr Du)

LocationSJ 12099 85267 / 53.3570, -3.3222 / dignify.conducted.overdrive
Established / Rebuilt / Automated / Closed1777 / ca. 1820 / — / 1844
Architect or BuilderH. Turner
Height of tower (m) / above sea level (m)18 / 16
Ownerprivate

Erected to mark the entrance to the River Dee, this brick-built tower was originally sited above the shoreline, but the beach has now encroached upon it. It showed a light from the top of the tower westwards along the coast, and another from a window at 2.5m facing east. In 1844 it was replaced by a new light and accommodation block on cast iron piles built further offshore, which itself was succeeded by a light ship in 1883.