Archaeology Notes

Event ID 877402

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS02NE 10 06860 29101

Pillar Rock Lighthouse [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, May 2010.

Lighthouse [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, June 2010.

Not to be confused with Holy Island, Inner Lighthouse (Lamlash Bay Lighthouse: NS 06300 28618), for which see NS02NE 9.00.

This lighthouse was built in 1905, and was the first square lighthouse tower built by the Northern Lighthouse Board. It was electrified and automated in 1977.

R W Munro 1979.

Pillar Rock Lighthouse is also known as Holy Island Outer Lighthouse. A shore light, it is situated low down near the S end of the E coast of Arran, and guards the main channel up the Firth of Clyde.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 May 2010.