Irish Lights Archive

The Irish Lights Archive tells the story of Ireland's maritime heritage, as well as its social, political, military, engineering, architectural, scientific, and administrative history in the 19thand 20th centuries. Our archival collections include

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Heritage

The Heritage archive of Irish Lights is a source not just of maritime history, but also for the wider social, political, military, engineering, architectural, scientific and administrative history of Ireland in the 19th & 20th centuries.

Who We Are

We are a maritime organisation delivering an essential safety service around the coast of Ireland, protecting the marine environment, and supporting the marine industry and coastal communities.

Safety & Navigation

Find Notices to Mariners, details of our lighthouses and buoys, apply for statutory sanction, report an AtoN fault or access other safety and navigation information.

Tourism

We have launched our new all-island tourism initiative (Great Lighthouses of Ireland) featuring twelve of our lighthouses in stunning locations round our coast.

Commercial Services

We provide marine consultancy and advice, vessel and buoy hire, data collection technologies, venue hire and film location services.

Environment

Our lighthouses and buoys, many of which are powered by renewable energy sources, 'talk to us' - transmitting weather and other environmental information back to us.

Technology & Data Services

We provide communications, e-Navigation and data services using our coastal network infrastructure. Clients include Government, local authorities, research institutions and the general public.

RTE Series

Vacancies

For more information on these positions, click the link above.

For more information on our tourism initiative, click the image above.

Emergency Number

If you notice any aid to navigation is not functioning correctly please contact our 24 hour emergency number 01-2801996

News Highlights

IRISH LIGHTS CORPORATE VIDEO from Inproduction TV on Vimeo.