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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 850657
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/850657
NS22NE 1 27529 29335
Lighthouse [NAT]
OS (GIS) AIB, May 2006.
Location formerly entered as NS 27526 29338.
For (associated) Troon Harbour, see NS33SW 23.00.
Not to be confused with Horse Island Beacon (off Ardrossan, at NS 21288 42560), for which see NS24SW 227, or with Lappock Rock Beacon (NS c. 3017 3478), for which see NS33SW 127.
White beacon: N55 31.6 W4 44.0.
[Admiralty] 1980.
Ships of over 220 tons, too large to enter the harbours of Saltcoats [NS24SW 44.00], Irvine [NS33NW 40.00] or Ayr [NS32SW 123.00] could find anchorage in 10 to 14 fathoms [18 to 26m] in an area E of, and covered by Lady Isle [name: NS 275 293] an islet lying some 2 miles [3.2km] SW of Troon [harbour: NS33SW 23.00], and consequently an organised and well-sheltered harbour behind the Troon peninsula itself was an attractive proposition. One may recall that the town of Glasgow was (c. 1776) to set up a pair of beacons on Lady Isle to indicate the position of the anchorage [situated inshore], no doubt for the benefit of ships serving its merchants.
A Graham 1984.
