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The Commissioners of Irish Lights (CIL) (Irish: ''Coimisinéirí Soilse na hÉireann'' ) is the body that serves as the General Lighthouse Authority for the island of Ireland plus its adjacent seas and islands. As the Irish Lighthouse Authority it oversees the coastal lights and navigation marks provided by the local lighthouse authorities; the county councils and port authorities. It is funded by light dues paid by ships calling at ports in Ireland, pooled with dues raised similarly in the United Kingdom. This recognises that a large volume of shipping, typically transatlantic, relies on the lights provided by the CIL but never puts in to its ports. ==History== Signal fires to guide shipping have long existed. Hook Head is the oldest continuous (with some interruptions) light in Ireland, it was originally a signal fire or beacon tended by the monk Dubhán in the fifth century. Monks continued to maintain the light until the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1641. King Charles II re-established the lighthouse in 1657. He granted a patent for the erection of six lighthouses to Robert Reading, some replacing older lighthouses, at Hook Head, Baily Lighthouse at Howth Head, Howth sand-bar, Old Head of Kinsale, Barry Oge's castle (now Charlesfort, near Kinsale), and the Isle of Magee. In 1704 Queen Anne transferred the lighthouses around the Irish coast to the Revenue Commissioners. The Commissioners of Irish Lights, or "CIL" was established under an Act of the Parliament of Ireland passed in 1786 and entitled ''An Act for Promoting the Trade of Dublin, by rendering its Port and Harbour more commodious'' (26 Geo. III, c. xix). Lighthouses were not included until the 1810 Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. These Acts, as confirmed by the Irish Lights Commissioners (Adaptation) Order, 1935, remain the legislative basis for the CIL. The CIL has moved its headquarters from Dublin to a purpose-built new building in Harbour Road, Dún Laoghaire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Commissioners of Irish Lights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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