For Eagle Island Lighthouse in Erris, Co. Mayo, Ireland see Eagle Island, County Mayo

Eagle Island, County Mayo

Eagle Island lies off the Mullet Peninsula in Erris off the north west County Mayo Atlantic Ocean coast in Ireland....

Eagle Island Light is a lighthouse

Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....

 on Eagle Island (Penobscot Bay, Maine)

Eagle Island (Penobscot Bay, Maine)

Eagle Island is a island in East Penobscot Bay, Maine, between North Haven Island and Deer Isle. Eagle Island was conveyed to Samuel Quin on November 18, 1844 from John C. Gray with the exception of the Lighthouse Lot, which was previously deeded to the United States Government by John Gray...

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It was first established in 1838. The present structure was built in 1858. Over the protests of area residents, the keeper's house was torn down in 1964. The square pyramidal bell tower survives. The crew that removed the bell lost control of it, and it fell into the Bay. A lobsterman salvaged it and it is on exhibit on Great Spruce Head Island. Along with several other lights in Maine, the growth of trees around the light has made its future problematic.