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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 860340
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/860340
NB43SW 20.00 43250 30828
Lighthouse [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1985.
NB43SW 20.01 43186 30806 Attendant's House
For beacon on Reef Rock (160m to NE, at NB 43329 30971), see NB43SW 225.
(Location cited as NB 433 308). Arnish Point Lighthouse, built 1852 by engineer Alan Stevenson. A short tapering circular-section tower with a range of single-storey keepers' cottages.
J R Hume 1977.
This island lighthouse is situated near the end of Arnish Point (Rubha Airinis), from where it guards the W side of the broad entrance to Stornoway harbour (Cala Steornabhaigh) from the S.
It was constructed in 1852, being the first pre-fabricated tower built by the Northern Lighthouse Board. The tower of iron plates was cast at Renfrew, and was unusually cold in winter. It was the last lighthouse for which Alan Stevenson was the engineer responsible.
It became a major automatic light in 1963.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 August 2008.
R W Munro 1979; K Allardyce and E M Hood 1986; K Allardyce 1998.
