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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 698333
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/698333
NS15SW 15.00 13760 51514
Location formerly cited as NS 1376 5151.
For (superceded and predecessor) 'old' lighthouse (NS 14309 51468), see NS15SW 14.
NS15SW 15.01 NS 1373 5143 Fog Signal
NS15SW 15.02 NS 1369 5156 Slipway
NS15SW 15.03 NS 1368 5173 Jetty
NS15SW 15.04 NS 1371 5151 Boat House
Cumbrae Lighthouse
(occulting white) [NAT]
OS (GIS) AIB, April 2006.
(Location cited as NS 138 514). Little Cumbrae Lighthouse, first lit 1793 by the Cumbrae Lighthouse Trust. A short circular-section tower, with corbelled walkway with two blocks of keepers' houses, one on a U plan adjoining the tower, the other detached. The fog-horn block has a single-storey flat-roofed engine house.
J R Hume 1977.
First lit 1793, replacing Old Lighthouse (NS15SW 14). A short circular-section tower, with corbelled walkway with two blocks of keepers' houses, one on U-plan adjoining the tower, the other detached. The fog-horn block has a single-storey, flat-roofed engine house.
D B Hague and R Christie 1975; J R Hume 1977; R W Munro 1979.
