A clock-tower folly overlooking Knightstown harbour on Valentia Island, in County Kerry, Ireland.
The picturesque little clock-tower overlooking Knightstown harbour on Valentia Island, in County Kerry, Ireland was originally built as a coal weighing facility with the lower section housing weighing scales. The coal used by the Valentia Slate Company in their furnaces in Knightstown and the Slate Quarry, by the nearby Western Union Cable Station, local fishing vessels and the three lighthouses in the vicinity. Since local inhabitants also burned coal as furl during the days of the horse and cart, the cart was first weighed, then the coal loaded and the difference in weight paid for. The Knight of Kerry decided make the building more aesthetically acceptable by adding an upper Clock Tower, but the timepiece was put out of commission in 1922 by Free State soldiers and left frozen in time until restored in 1990. This image of the harbour clock-tower appears in "Irish Follies and Whimsical Architecture" by George Munday and published by O'Brien Press in Dublin.
Size: 5520px × 3781px
Location: Knightstown harbour on Valentia Island, in County Kerry, Ireland.
Photo credit: © George Munday / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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