LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S COTTAGE

(Above): Banshee Point Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage.

The white fence-enclosed keeper's cottage is built back from the edge of a sharp cliff, just a short distance from the lighthouse. Another path leads from the cottage down to the sea. The cottage is white, trimmed in green, and topped with a thatched roof. The floors are light-colored, apparent in the bedroom, kitchen and the indoor water closet. The fireplace is unusual in that it opens into the living area and the bedroom on the other side.

(Above): The kitchen inside the cottage.

The kitchen is small, with a wood-burning stove, an icebox, sink, long counter and a pantry closet. A back door leads outside into an area facing the direction of the main house. The bedroom walls were made from knotty pine. Double French doors lead to porch, where a table and two high-backed chairs face the ocean.

The keeper's cottage has been witness to much drama over the years. It was the setting for the romance between Colm Sullivan and Molly Larkin, and later where she repudiated him (The Advent). Patrick Larkin brooded in it's environs until he went off the deep end (Quixotic Crossings). It was also where Angie Page discovered Colm Sullivan's old journal and where she and Tom Cimarelli spent their honeymoon (The Keeper's Journal), and it became a retreat for Shannon Larkin after she suffered more than one life-altering event (The Twilight).

Please Note: The images displayed above are actually from a thatched cottage in County Donegal, Ireland.

Images referenced to the Collective Obsessions Saga provided inspiration to the author's imagination but remain fictional in context.