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Rubha nan Gall lighthouse is located north of Tobermory on the Isle of Mull beside the Sound of Mull. The name means "Stranger's Point" in Scottish Gaelic. It was built in 1857 by David and Thomas Stevenson and is operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board. [2] The lighthouse was automated in 1960 and the nearby former keepers' cottages are ...
Dunnet Head Lighthouse Dunnet Head: 1831 [5] Fidra Lighthouse East Lothian [6] 1885 [7] Fife Ness Lighthouse Fife Ness: 1975 [8] Girdleness Lighthouse Aberdeen: 1833 [9] Holy Isle Inner Lighthouse North Ayrshire: 1877: Holy Isle Outer Lighthouse North Ayrshire: 1905: Inchkeith Lighthouse Fife: 1804 [10] Isle of May Lighthouse Fife [11] 1816 [12]
The lighthouse at Carraig Fhada, Islay, looking towards Caolas Eilean nan Caorach, Sgeir Fhada and Sgeir Phlocach with Port Ellen at left Looking north from Na h-Urrachann towards Rubha nam Faoilean, Scarba, with Guirasdeal, Lunga and Eilean Dubh Mòr in the Slate Islands beyond. Islay: Mull of Oa and Laggan Bay: Eileanan Mòra, Sgeirean Buidhe ...
The Rinns of Islay lighthouse is located on the island of Orsay. The Rhinns complex , a deformed igneous complex that is considered to form the basement to the Colonsay Group of metasedimentary rocks takes its name from the Rhinns of Islay.
The name "Rua Reidh" is a semi-anglicisation of "Rubha Rèidh" meaning a flat headland. A lighthouse on Rubh'Re Point was first proposed by David Stevenson in 1853. Building was started by his son, David Alan Stevenson in 1908 and the light was first lit on 15 January 1912. [3]
Weavers Point (Scottish Gaelic: Rubha an Fhigheadair) is a headland to the north of the entrance to Loch Maddy, on the north eastern coastline of North Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. [1] There has been a lighthouse on the headland since 1980.
The lighthouse was built by Robert Stevenson in 1833 at a cost of £4260 [4] and initially showed a fixed white light. [3] In 1910 most of the Northern Lighthouse Board's lights were changed to dioptric or Fresnel lenses but Lismore and Fidra , in the Firth of Forth , were left as the only remaining purely catoptric lights in the service.
Fife Ness (Scottish Gaelic: Rubha Fiobha) is a headland forming the most eastern point in Fife, Scotland.Anciently the area was called Muck Ross, which is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic Muc-Rois meaning "Headland of the Pigs". [3]