Last year July I took an afternoon boat trip out to the Fastnet as part of a photography boat trip with Rohan Reilly. Unfortunately there wasn’t much of a sunset that evening, but we still managed to get nice and close up to the lighthouse, which was built back in 1897. It lies just over 6km southwest of Cape Clear Island and 13km from the Irish mainland, accessible by boats departing from Baltimore. Due to its location, the Fastnet was known as Ireland’s Teardrop, because it was the last part of Ireland that 19th-century Irish emigrants saw as they sailed to North America.