In 1822 a coastguard station was built at what is now Belmullet town.
To the immediate south of the coastguard station is a short steel frame tower.
Those crowds in the distance by the coastguard station will be getting quite a sunburn.
The South barracks became a coastguard station thereafter, and this duty continued until 1840.
A surviving passenger alerted the coastguard station on the island.
Further to the east along the clifftop is a coastguard station and alternative parking for visitors to the park.
Seven coastguard stations have been closed since 1979, leaving 21 stations to cover 6,000 miles of coast.
A coastguard station was built at Lepe to combat smuggling in the region.
Little evidence now remains of the eight cottages and coastguard station (disbanded in 1910) that once stood close to the bay.
However the new coastguard station, built in 1980 and opened by Prince Charles, was closed in 2001.
