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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 ...
Rubha nan Gall Lighthouse Argyll and Bute [136] 56°38′19″N 6°3′58″W [136] Isle of Mull: 1857: Thomas Stevenson, David Stevenson: Northern Lighthouse Board: 19: 17 [4] 15 [4] Ruvaal Lighthouse Argyll and Bute [137], Killarow and Kilmeny [138] [139] 55°56′11″N 6°7′25″W [138] [139] Islay: 1859 [140] David Stevenson, Thomas ...
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 ...
Tobermory, Mull – as viewed from the Sound of Mull Rubha nan Gall Lighthouse, north of Tobermory. Isabella Bird (1831–1904), the Victorian traveller and writer, frequently stayed in the town, where her sister Henrietta had a house. She often assisted the local doctor and, on at least one occasion, served as anaesthetist when he removed a ...
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]
Loch Indaal slopes gently from its NE corner down to its opening into the Atlantic. [3] At the mouth of the loch, which lies between Portnahaven to the north and the American Monument on The Oa to the south, the depth is around 40 metres, rising steadily upwards towards the northeast and reaching a depth of barely 10 metres between Laggan Point and Port Charlotte.
The translation of Dubh Artach is "The Black Rock", artach being a now obsolete Gaelic word for a rock or rocky ground both in Scottish Gaelic [9] and in Irish. [10] The variation between the anglicised forms Dubh Artach and Dhu Heartach is a simple case of false splitting where the final [h] of [t̪uh arˠʃt̪əx] in pronunciation seemingly is part of the following word, suggesting *hartach ...
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.