Hook Head, Co. WexfordThe tower dates back over 800 years. Over 800 years, and it's still doing the same job it was built for. Just with better bulbs! That's what gets me about Hook Head. It looks like any other operational light station with its bold black and white bands and modern optics, but the structure beneath that paint is genuinely medieval. I made this photograph on an evening when cloud was building from the southwest and the sea was rough, waves breaking hard