Copinsay Lighthouse
Lighthouse (20th Century)
Site Name Copinsay Lighthouse
Classification Lighthouse (20th Century)
Canmore ID 3256
Site Number HY60SW 7
NGR HY 61376 01211
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3256
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish St Andrews And Deerness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY60SW 7.00 61376 01211
HY60NW 7.01 61359 61220 Keepers' Houses
(Location cited as HY 613 031). Copinsay Lighthouse, completed 1915 by engineer D Alan Stevenson. A short circular-section tower, with a similar foghorn tower and two-storey, flat-roofed keepers' houses.
J R Hume 1977.
See also sale brochure, Knight, Frank and Rutley, June 1991 (D5/SH[P]) for photograph and other items relating to sale of lightkeepers' houses.
Information from RCAHMS [1991].
Name: Copinsay (1914-15)
Location: N58 54 W2 40 North Sea, 2 miles SE of Point of Ayre
Designed and built: D A Stevenson
Light first exhibited: 8 November 1915
Description: circular brick tower, painted white: horn tower adjacent
Height of light above MHW: 259ft (79m)
Height of tower: 53ft (16m)
Light source and characteristics: W Gp Fl (5) ev 30 secs. 250W mercury vapour lamp: 180,000cp: nominal range 15nm
Fog warning apparatus: electric (4) ev 60 secs
Manning: unwatched (automatic since 31 March 1991 and monitored from Northern Lighthouse Board HQ, Edinburgh)
Fog signal tower demolished 1985
C Nicholson 1995.
