Archaeology Notes

Event ID 673958

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM46NW 4.00 41587 67473

Ardnamurchan Lighthouse [NAT]

OS (GIS) AIB, April 2008.

NM46NW 4.01 NM 41593 67454 Keepers Cottages

NM46NW 4.02 NM c.4155 6750 Sundial

NM46NW 4.03 NM 41644 67279 Steading (Visitor Centre)

NM46NW 4.04 NM 41575 67486 Foghorn

For associated quarries at Camas Tuath, Mull (NM 3520 2424), see NM32SE 16.

(Location cited as NM 416 675). Ardnamurchan lighthouse, built 1848, engineer Alan Stevenson. A circular-section, slightly-tapering stone tower, with a corbelled walkway and standard lantern. The keepers' houses are single-storey, flat-roofed. The most westerly lighthouse on the mainland of Britain.

J R Hume 1977.

This (shore) lighthouse was converted to group flashing in 1927/8.

R W Munro 1979.

NM 4158 6745. Ardnamurchan Lighthouse: The lantern of this lighthouse rises to a height of 55m above the shore of the most westerly point of the British mainland. It was designed by Alan Stevenson in 1846 and built by Robert Hume, a contractor from Gatehouse-of-Fleet. The light was first displayed in 1849, the total cost of construction being #13,738. In its original form the light was fixed; a flashing signal was adopted in 1928.

(A full description of the lighthouse and associated buildings is given by RCAHMS).

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1971.