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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 648432
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/648432
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.
