{"id":1891,"date":"2025-09-16T08:41:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:42:28","slug":"the-lighthouse-in-kells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/the-lighthouse-in-kells\/","title":{"rendered":"The lighthouse in Kells, Co. Meath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before you run to Googlemaps and tell me that Kells is inland and doesn&#8217;t have a lighthouse, you are correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is located just outside of Kells is the Spire of Lloyd, a folly constructed in the late 18th century in the form of a doric column with a glazed balcony at its head, giving the appearance of a lighthouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meath County Council have been running tours on Friday mornings over the last few months (ending this month) and as I was heading north last Friday to take part in Heritage Open Days in Northern Ireland (spent the full weekend there), I took the opportunity to pay a visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"536\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DO00851.jpg\" alt=\"Spire of Lloyd, Kells, Co. Meath\" class=\"wp-image-1893\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DO00851.jpg 536w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DO00851-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Spire of Lloyd, Kells, Co. Meath. Copyright Ewan Duffy 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you run to Googlemaps and tell me that Kells is inland and doesn&#8217;t have a lighthouse, you are correct. What is located just outside of Kells is the Spire of Lloyd, a folly constructed in the late 18th century in the form of a doric column with a glazed balcony at its head, giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}