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===Bailey Lighthouse=== [[File:Howth Lighthouse, from the Needles, Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Howth Lighthouse, from the Needles, after George Petrie]] At the southeast corner of Howth Head, in the area known as Bail(e)y (historically, the Green Bayley) is the automated [[Baily Lighthouse]], successor to previous aids to navigation, at least as far back as the late 17th century. This is the subject of a picture, ''Howth Lighthouse, from the Needles'', by [[George Petrie (artist)|George Petrie]], which appears in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835, with an attached poetical illustration by [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]].<ref>{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Bzk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA30-IA8|section=picture|year=1834|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Bzk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA33|section=poetical illustration|year=1834|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref> At the end of the East Pier of Howth Harbour are the [[Howth Harbour Lighthouse]], built in the 19th century and no longer in service, and the pole-mounted light which replaced it.<ref name=rowlett>{{cite rowlett|irle|access-date=30 July 2020}}</ref> {{wikisource|Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835/Howth Light-House|Howth Light-House, a poetical illustration<br />by L. E. L.}}
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