Ferris Point Lighthouse, Ferris Bay Road, Islandmagee, Larne, Co Antrim is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Ferris Point Lighthouse, Ferris Bay Road, Islandmagee, Larne, Co Antrim
- WRENN ID
- under-obsidian-harvest
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Constituency
- East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- D 420 026
- Coordinates
- 54.85164, -5.78984
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The Ferris Point Lighthouse, built between 1835 and 1839 to designs by George Halpin, inspector of lighthouses, was originally located on Ferris Bay Road, Islandmagee, Larne, Co Antrim, in the townland of Ballylumford. It was shown on an Ordnance Survey map of 1857. The lighthouse comprised a circular tower with a corbelled railed walkway around the housing, accompanied by two-storey ancillary buildings. The ancillary buildings had rendered walls, flat roofs, parapets, moulded cornices, and vertically divided sash windows set in plain eaved surrounds, with pediments on the ground floor. The lighthouse tower was demolished in 1976 following the construction of a new tower in 1975, and the ancillary buildings were subsequently replaced. The site is recorded as a monument (SMR no. ANT41:25) and is of industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Ferris Point Lighthouse, Ferris Bay Road, Islandmagee, Larne, Co Antrim sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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