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Lighthouse The lighthouse on Eilean Musdile looking north from the Oban to Craignure ferry. | |
| Location | Eilean Musdile Firth of Lorn Scotland United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 56°27′22″N 5°36′15″W / 56.4561°N 5.6042°W / 56.4561; -5.6042 |
| Constructed | 1833 |
| Construction | masonry tower |
| Automated | June 1965 |
| Height | 26 metres (85 ft) |
| Shape | cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern attached to 1-storey keepe's house |
| Markings | white tower and lantern, ochre trim |
| Operator | Northern Lighthouse Board |
| Light | |
| Focal height | 31 metres (102 ft) |
| Intensity | 71,000 candela |
| Range | 17 miles (27 km) |
| Characteristic | Fl W 10s. |
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 Lighthouse 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.
The skerry of Lady's Rock lies a short distance to the south west.
See also
Footnotes
- Lismore The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 19 May 2016
- Lismore Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 19 May 2016
- ^ "History of Lismore Lighthouse". Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- "Lismore Lighthouse". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- "Eilean Musdile Standing Stone". The Northern Antiquarian. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
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