Lady Isle, Light House
Beacon (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Lady Isle, Light House
Classification Beacon (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Lady Isle Lighthouse; Troon Harbour Entrance; Firth Of Clyde; Outer Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 203606
Site Number NS22NE 1
NGR NS 27529 29335
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/203606
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Dundonald (Kyle And Carrick)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NS22NE 1 27529 29335
Lighthouse [NAT]
OS (GIS) AIB, May 2006.
Location formerly entered as NS 27526 29338.
For (associated) Troon Harbour, see NS33SW 23.00.
Not to be confused with Horse Island Beacon (off Ardrossan, at NS 21288 42560), for which see NS24SW 227, or with Lappock Rock Beacon (NS c. 3017 3478), for which see NS33SW 127.
White beacon: N55 31.6 W4 44.0.
[Admiralty] 1980.
Ships of over 220 tons, too large to enter the harbours of Saltcoats [NS24SW 44.00], Irvine [NS33NW 40.00] or Ayr [NS32SW 123.00] could find anchorage in 10 to 14 fathoms [18 to 26m] in an area E of, and covered by Lady Isle [name: NS 275 293] an islet lying some 2 miles [3.2km] SW of Troon [harbour: NS33SW 23.00], and consequently an organised and well-sheltered harbour behind the Troon peninsula itself was an attractive proposition. One may recall that the town of Glasgow was (c. 1776) to set up a pair of beacons on Lady Isle to indicate the position of the anchorage [situated inshore], no doubt for the benefit of ships serving its merchants.
A Graham 1984.
