Construction

Date 1857

Event ID 550794

Category Building History

Type Construction

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Ornsay light was built by David Stevenson to guard the S approach to the Sound of Sleat, and first lit on 10 November 1857; it used Thomas Stevenson's 'condensing' apparatus to display different strangths of light in different directions.

J R Hume 1977