Eilean Glass Lighthouse
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| Place: | Barra Head , Outer Hebrides , Scotland | |
| Location: | Outer Hebrides , Scotland , United Kingdom | |
| Geographical location: | 57 ° 51 '24.8 " N , 6 ° 38' 31.4" W | |
| Fire height : | 43 | |
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| Construction time: | 1824 | |
| Operating time: | since 1789 (previous building) | |
The Eilean Glas Lighthouse , German Eilean-Glas-Leuchtturm , is a lighthouse on the Scottish Hebridean island of Scalpay . In 1994, the lighthouse was initially included in the Scottish List of Monuments in Category B. In 2004 it was upgraded to the highest category A.
history
In 1787, the predecessor of today's suggested Northern Lighthouse Board at Alex McLeod of Harris , the owner Scalpays, the construction of a lighthouse. Since the construction of the Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse tied the organization's own construction workers at this time, McLeod hired his own staff, which began the work that same year. After completion of the work on the Mull of Kintyre , bricklayers took over the Northern Lighthouse Board in the summer of 1788. In October of the same year the shell was completed. As part of an assessment, Thomas Smith , the chief engineer, discovered that the tower's circumference deviated from the plans. As a result, the plans were adapted to the more than one meter larger size. The carpenter Archie McVicar from the island of North Uist was hired for the interior work . The lighthouse went into operation on October 10, 1789, making it the oldest lighthouse in the Outer Hebrides and one of the oldest in Scotland. The first and only lighthouse keeper was Alex Reid from Fraserburgh , who moved in with his family and looked after the tower until 1823.
In the 1820s, the old tower was partially demolished and replaced by a new structure. The current lighthouse was completed in 1824 under the lead engineer Robert Stevenson . In 1852 the lens system was renewed. The identifier for the foghorn added in 1907 was a seven-second tone every 1.5 minutes. Its operation ceased in 1987. The lighthouse was automated in 1978 at a cost of £ 83,565.
description
The Eilean Glas Lighthouse is 28 m high and has five floors, which are painted alternately in the colors red and white. Linked to this are the remains of the old lighthouse, which are used as a warehouse. The residential buildings of the lighthouse keepers are built in the Egyptian style and served as a template for the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse, which was built later . Like the other outbuildings, they are whitewashed. However, only two of the original three buildings remain. A jetty was added around 1845 under the direction of Alan Stevenson . The beacon is at a height of 43 m above sea level, which gives a range of 23 nautical miles (around 42 km). The tower is identified by three white flashes every 20 seconds.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ a b c Information from the Northern Lighthouse Board
Web links
- Entry on Eilean Glas Lighthouse in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database