Archaeology Notes

Event ID 719294

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM55NW 18 50772 57045

Lighthouse [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1976.

Not to be confused with Ardmore Point beacon (NM 47053 59205), for which see NM45NE 22.

This shore light is situated about 1.5km N of Tobermory, and marks the SW side of the NW entrance to the Sound of Mull. Built as part of the joint scheme of David and Thomas Stevenson (to buld 29 lights between 1854 and 1878), it was first lit on 10 November 1857 and automated in 1860.

The main (Northern) entrance to Tobermory Harbour (NM55NW 19.00) is centred around NM 514 554.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 June 2005.

R W Munro 1979; K Allardyce and E M Hood 1986; S Krauskopf 2001.