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Lighthouse The lighthouse on Eilean Musdile looking north from the Oban to Craignure ferry. | |
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| Location | Firth of Lorne, Scotland |
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| Coordinates | 56° 27.4’N 05° 36.4’W |
| Constructed | 1833 |
| Construction | White tower |
| Automated | June 1965 |
| Height | 26 metres |
| Light | |
| First lit | October 1833 |
| Focal height | 31 metres |
| Intensity | 71,000 candlepower |
| Range | 17 miles (27 km) |
| Characteristic | Flashing White every 10 secs |
Eilean Musdile (Mansedale) is an islet, and lighthouse to the south west of Lismore in the Inner Hebrides.
The island lies in the entrance to Loch Linnhe, separated from Lismore by a sound ¼ miles across. It is a low-lying rock, ten acres (4 ha) in size, with some grass on it. CalMac ferries pass close to the island on their way from Oban to Mull.
The lighthouse was built by Robert Stevenson in 1833 at a cost of £4260 and initially showed a fixed white light. In 1910 most of the Northern Lighhouse Board's lights were changed to dioptric or Fresnel lenses but Lismore and Fidra, in the Firth of Forth, were left as the only remaining purely catoptric lights in the service.
A Standing Stone once stood on the highest point of the island (NM779351. The 9-foot (2.7 m) monolith appears to have recorded the midwinter sunset and is thought to have been removed during construction of the lighthouse.
Footnotes
- ^ "History of Lismore Lighthouse". Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- "Oban to Mull Ferry". Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- "Lismore Lighthouse". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- "Eilean Musdile Standing Stone". The Northern Antiquarian. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
56°27′22″N 5°36′15″W / 56.45611°N 5.60417°W / 56.45611; -5.60417
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