Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 930253
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/930253
government for lights to be established at Covesea Skerries
Covesea Skerries Lighthouse
(Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 2529)
Following the loss of 16 vessels during a storm in the Moray Firth in November 1826 applications were made to the and Tarbat Ness but it was two decades before Covesea Skerries, one of three lighthouses on the Moray Firth, the others being Cromarty and Chanonry, became operational
in 1846. All thre e were designed by Alan Stevenson and Covesea Skerries was built by James Smith. The stone tower is about 118 ft high with the spiral access stair supported between the external wall and a central hollow shaft for the weights that drove the lamp machinery.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
