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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 858373

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/858373

HY60SW 7.00 61376 01211

HY60NW 7.01 61359 61220 Keepers' Houses

(Location cited as HY 613 031). Copinsay Lighthouse, completed 1915 by engineer D Alan Stevenson. A short circular-section tower, with a similar foghorn tower and two-storey, flat-roofed keepers' houses.

J R Hume 1977.

See also sale brochure, Knight, Frank and Rutley, June 1991 (D5/SH[P]) for photograph and other items relating to sale of lightkeepers' houses.

Information from RCAHMS [1991].

Name: Copinsay (1914-15)

Location: N58 54 W2 40 North Sea, 2 miles SE of Point of Ayre

Designed and built: D A Stevenson

Light first exhibited: 8 November 1915

Description: circular brick tower, painted white: horn tower adjacent

Height of light above MHW: 259ft (79m)

Height of tower: 53ft (16m)

Light source and characteristics: W Gp Fl (5) ev 30 secs. 250W mercury vapour lamp: 180,000cp: nominal range 15nm

Fog warning apparatus: electric (4) ev 60 secs

Manning: unwatched (automatic since 31 March 1991 and monitored from Northern Lighthouse Board HQ, Edinburgh)

Fog signal tower demolished 1985

C Nicholson 1995.

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