Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 934249
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/934249
Kyleakin Lighthouse
(Institute Civil Engineers Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 0084/02)
This 69 ft tall sentinel at the entry to Skye is D. & T. Stevenson’s Kyleakin Lighthouse, since 1995 somewhat dwarfed by the Skye Bridge which now even supports the navigational light! When built in 1857 this lighthouse, with its five-span continuous plate-iron footbridge over the rocks, was one of the best examples of its class and exhibited one of the world’s first
fixed condensing lights. It now forms part of the island nature reserve, of naturalist Gavin Maxwell fame, administered by the Eilean Ba'n Trust. Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
