Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648432

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC03SW 6 00370 32967

Stoerhead Lighthouse [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1971.

(Location cited as NC 003 330). Stoer Head Lighthouse, built 1870, engineers D and T Stevenson. A short circular-section tower linked at two levels to a flat-roofed two-storey block of keepers' houses.

J R Hume 1977.

This shore lighthouse guards the E (mainland) side of the northern entrance into the Minch. It was built by David and Thomas Stevenson in 1870, and became a major automatic light in 1978. The (former) keepers' house lie adjacent, and remain in short-term residential use.

Stoer Head (Point of Stoer) is at NC 022 356.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 August 2008.

R W Munro 1979; K Allardyce and E M Hood 1986; S Krauskopf 2001.