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The original buildings are intact and preserved, and visitors to the area can stay in the three keepers' cottages, while the lighthouse is a museum. The lighthouse, its former keepers' cottages, stable and store, and the jetty, funnelway and the ruins of a store at Weirs Cove, have separate listings
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Before construction could begin, a jetty was built in Weirs Cove, 1 mi (1.6 km) north of the lighthouse, and a
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and two assistants with their families, and there were also stables and outbuildings. The lighthouse was fitted with a
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