Pensions were granted at a rate £6 per annum for the widow and £3 per annum per child until the age of 16. Pre-famine Ireland was a place of extreme poverty.
On the night of Sunday the 18thOctober 1812, an unusually high tide occurred and a violent tempest swept the sea over the rock, carrying away the temporary wooden houses which were erected here for the shelter of the workmen, and of 24 men upon the rock, 14 were washed away.
180 years later it is impossible to tell what really happened on that night. The Magistrates and Board believed the painters had no case to answer but the question remains, who attacked Thomas Young and why?
On the 17th of December 1910, during a strong gale, the lighthouse keeper at the Arranmore North station reported an alarming and mysterious occurrence.