Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648035

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG71SW 8.00 71350 12183

Lighthouse [NAT]

OS 1:10,560 map, 1968.

NG71SW 8.01 NG 71286 12191 Keepers' Cottages

(Location cited as NG 713 122). Ornsay Lighthouse, Eilean Sionnaich: built 1857 by engineers D and T Stevenson. A short, circular-section tower with corbelled balcony. The single-storey keepers' houses have ridged roofs.

J R Hume 1977.

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. It was converted to gas operation in 1898 and automated in 1962.

R W Munro 1979.

This rock lighthouse is sitauted on the island of Eilean Sionnaich, just off the SE coast of Skye, and on the W side of the Sound of Sleat and near the S entrance to Kyle Rhea.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 August 2005.