Field Visit

Date 3 June 1997

Event ID 550780

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/550780

This was one of the four first lighthouses in Scotland. Begun in 1787, the lamp was first lit on the 10th October 1789. The current tower and dwellings date from c1826 (engineer Robert Stevenson). The light had been automated, the dwellings were unoccupied and the old tower and house were in a bad state of repair on the date of visit.

Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), 3 June 1997.