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2016 Ireland Lighthouse Stamps & Booklet Covers

* Updated with new images

On 28 July 2016 An Post issued a booklet containing four different stamps that commemorate the longest defined coastal touring route in the world, the Wild Atlantic Way. Though no lighthouses are pictured on the stamps, the booklet cover features Valentia Lighthouse at Cromwell Point. The light tower, which dates to 1841 was built within the walls of a fort in southwestern Ireland and is also known as Fort Point Lighthouse.

Valentia L/H at Cromwell Point | 28 July 2016 |  booklet cover Valentia L/H at Cromwell Point | 28 July 2016 | booklet cover

On 6 October An Post issued another set of four values to commemorate Irish Lighthouses/Commissioners of Irish Lights. The stamps area available in a sheet of 16 stamps and in a prestige booklet.

The four stamps are shown below. The first one shows a navigational buoy being serviced. The second one shows Fanad Head Lighthouse. The third shows only the stylized lighthouse and the fourth one Valentia Lighthouse at Cromwell Point. All four feature the stylized lighthouse at the right.

Stylized L/H & navigation buoy | 6 Oct 2016 Stylized L/H & navigation buoy | 6 Oct 2016

Stylized L/H and Fanad Head L/H | 6 Oct 2016 Stylized L/H and Fanad Head L/H | 6 Oct 2016

Stylized L/H | 6 Oct 2016 Stylized L/H | 6 Oct 2016

Valentia L/H at Cromwell Point and stylized L/H | 6 Oct 2016 Valentia L/H at Cromwell Point and stylized L/H | 6 Oct 2016

Commissioners of Irish Lights | 6 Oct 2016 | booklet pane Commissioners of Irish Lights | 6 Oct 2016 | booklet pane

Commissioners of Irish Lights | 6 Oct 2016 | booklet pane Commissioners of Irish Lights | 6 Oct 2016 | booklet pane

Valentia L/H at Cromwell Point | 6 Oct  2016 | booklet cover Valentia L/H at Cromwell Point | 6 Oct 2016 | booklet cover

2013 Ireland

This stamp was issued on 25 Apr 2013. Pictured is a decommissioned lightship. This was one of four stamps included in a booklet commemorating contemporary arts. The Irish sculptor Dorothy Cross painted the former lightship with phosphorous paint and it was moored in Dublin Bay for several weeks in 1999. Cross had a love of the Irish lightships and missed seeing them as they were replaced by buoys. The ship would glow for several hours after dark and then the light would fade. This represented the disappearance of the lightships from the coast.

Former lightship Albatross | 25 Apr 2013 Former lightship Albatross | 25 Apr 2013