Dawn, the Fastnet Lighthouse, Co. CorkI was standing on the balcony of the Fastnet Lighthouse, eighty metres above the Atlantic, before anyone else in the kitchen below had stirred. First visit out there. That stays with you. The Fastnet sits twelve kilometres off the West Cork coast, the most southerly point of Ireland. You get there by helicopter, landing on that small orange helipad perched on the rock beside the stub of the original 1850s lighthouse. The old base and the 1904 tower