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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 743585
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/743585
HX62SW 1 62351 24246
(Location cited as HY 622 244). Sule Skerry lighthouse, built 1892-4, engineer D Alan Stevenson. A tapering circular-section brick tower on a concrete base, containing keepers' rooms. There are walkways at two levels. The lighthouse is linked to the landing stage by an inclined railway.
J R Hume 1977.
Name: Sule Skerry (1892-5)
Location: N59 05 W4 24 Atlantic, 37 miles NE of Cape Wrath
Designed: D A Stevenson
Built: John Aitken
Light first exhibited: 1895
Description: Circular stone tower, painted white
Height of light above MHW: 112ft (34m)
Height of tower: 89ft (27m)
Light source and characteristics: W Gp Fl (2) ev 15 secs. Acetylene: 65,000 cp: 19nm nominal range
Fog warning apparatus: None
Manning: unwatched (automatic since December 1982), monitored from Northern Lighthouse Board HQ, Edinburgh
Most isolated British lighthouse. Listed
C Nicholson 1995.
This lighthouse is one of the four in Scottish waters over 10 miles from land, the others being Flannan (NA74NW 8.00), Dubh Artach (NM10SW 1) and Bell Rock (NO72NE 1).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 May 2006.
