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Little Ross Island, Ross Lighthouse
Lighthouse (19th Century)
Site Name Little Ross Island, Ross Lighthouse
Classification Lighthouse (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Senwick; Ross Roads; Solway Firth; Kirkcudbright Bay; Wigton Bay
Canmore ID 105926
Site Number NX64SE 21
NGR NX 65955 43196
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/105926
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Borgue
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX64SE 21.00 65943 43202
Lighthouse
(flashing white) [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, September 2009.
NX64SE 21.01 NX 65942 43189 Residential Block (Cottages)
Visible on vertical air photograph (OS 70/095/006, flown 1970).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
This lighthouse was built at the mouth of Kirkcudbright Bay to close the gap between those at Mull of Galloway and Southerness (NX13SE 2 and NX95SE 1 respectively). The engineer was Thomas Stevenson and it was first lighted on 1 January 1843, being the first light of catadioptric type, having metallic mirrors above and below the lenses. Although this experiment was not totally successful, the light was hailed by Wlliam Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) as being, with Buchan Ness (NK14SW 73.00) and Rhinns of Islay (NR15SE 15), 'undoubtedly the three best revolving lights in the world'.
In 1960, the lighthouse was the scene of a sensational murder when an occasional lightkeeper was shot and robbed; an assistant lightkeeper was sentended to death but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The light was made automatic in the same year.
R W Munro 1979.
Construction (1843)
This lighthouse was built at the mouth of Kirkcudbright Bay to close the gap between those at Mull of Galloway and Southerness (NX13SE 2 and NX95SE 1 respectively). The engineer was Thomas Stevenson and it was first lighted on 1 January 1843, being the first light of catadioptric type, having metallic mirrors above and below the lenses.
R W Munro 1979.
