Given the danger of the sandbanks in the rocks called "Forcado de Adentro", "Forcado de fóra" and "Lavaderas" and the numerous shipwrecks that occurred over the years, the engineer Francisco Godínez is commissioned to design the lighthouse in the year 1919.
The final result of the project was a fourth-order beacon. Being an automated installation only a cylindrical tower painted white 11 m high that in the thirties is lined with ceramic.
It works with a fourth-order device with a range of 20 miles.
Curiosities, myths and legends
Next to a newly built garage is a tombstone that Captain Mr. Dovell ordered in 1830:
"Under this headstone lie the remains of 47-year-old Francisca Dovell, who with her only son Guilllermo Quaratly Dovell of age 12 had the misfortune to perish in the shipwreck suffered by the Bristol" Adelaide "on her voyage to the Antilles with One passenger and thirteen crew. This lamentable misfortune happened on the night of December 19, 1830 in the vicinity of the port of Laxe and as sad reminder of such melancholic event this monument is raised by Captain Guilllermo Dovell the bereaved and afflicted husband and only father who survived this calamitous loss. "If you pray for anything in my name, I will grant it. I will not allow you to remain without consolation, I will come to your assistance ", San Juan Chapter XI and XVIII Vers.
