Fanad Lighthouse welcomes 65,000 visitors as lighthouse keeper accommodation and northern lights potential draw tourists year-round to historic Donegal landmark Fanad Lighthouse in Co Donegal ...

Fanad remains a working lighthouse, one of 11 in Co Donegal, the navigation apparatus under the control of the Commissioners of Irish Lights. Eight years ago the tower opened as a tourist attraction.

Emma Heatherington was already in love with Donegal before she stayed in Fanad Lighthouse, which provides a backdrop to her latest novel, This Christmas.

In December 1811, the wrecking of the HMS Saldanha and the loss of 250 lives near Fanad Head in north Donegal led to the construction of a lighthouse there which began operating in 1817 and is a ...