page_title: Spit Bank Lighthouse
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: Spit Bank Lighthouse / References
caption_attribution_description: Español: Faro de Spit Bank (diseñado por Alexander Mitchell ) según dibujo de José Eugenio Ribera
context_page_description: The Spit Bank Lighthouse close to Cobh in County Cork, Ireland is a screw-pile lighthouse which marks a shallow bank in the navigable channels of lower Cork Harbour. The platform was built by the blind Irish engineer Alexander Mitchell, with the lighthouse itself designed by George Halpin. In use since its completion between 1851 and 1853, and renovated as recently as 2013, the landmark structure marks the boundary of compulsory pilotage for large vessels entering the Port of Cork.
context_section_description: Jim Blaney (June 2006). "Alexander Mitchell (1780–1868): Belfast's blind engineer". 14 (3). History Ireland. Retrieved 23 February 2016. 
  The Repertory of Patent Inventions, And Other Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Manufacturers, and Agriculture, July–December 1847. Repertory of Arts and Manufacturers. 1948. p. 116.
  The Repertory of Patent Inventions, And Other Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Manufacturers, and Agriculture, July–December 1847. Repertory of Arts and Manufacturers. 1948. p. 118.
  "Building of the Month – Spit Bank Lighthouse, Cobh, County Cork". Buildings of Ireland: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. November 2009. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  Jane Wales (April 2010). "Spitbank Lighthouse". 18 (2). History Ireland. Retrieved 23 February 2016. 
  Shea Tomkins (13 October 2015). "The Blind Irish Engineer who Designed Lighthouses". Ireland's Own. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  "Spit Bank Lighthouse, Cobh, Cork Harbour Undergoes Maintenance Work". Afloat.ie. 10 September 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  George Henry Saunders (1855). Mitchell's patent screw piles and moorings, and their applications. Offices of the Screw-Pile and Mooring Co. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  "County Cork, Spit Bank Lighthouse". Dictionary of Irish Architects. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  Royal Commission on Lights, Buoys, and Beacons (1861). Report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the condition and management of lights, buoys and beacons. G.E. Eyre & Spottiswoode. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  Miscellanea – Queenstown Harbour. The Builder, Volume 9. 1851. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
  Russ Rowlett. "Lighthouses of Southwestern Ireland (Munster)". University of North Carolina. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  "Spitbank Lighthouse under repair". September 2013.
  R. Ingram-Brown (1998). Brown's Nautical Almanac: Daily Tide Tables. Brown, Son & Ferguson. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  "Passage West and Monkstown, Cork Harbour". Passagewestmonkstown.ie. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  "Port Of Cork – Notice to Mariners". PortofCork.ie (Google Cache Archive). Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  Eugenio Ribera, José (1895). Puentes de hierro económicos, muelles y faros sobre palizadas y pilotes mecánicos. Madrid: Librería Editorial de Bailly-Bailliere e Hijos. pp. 299 (Lámina XIII).
caption: Spit bank lighthouse according to a drawing by José Eugenio Ribera.[17]
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