Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Skerryvore Lighthouse

Skerryvore Lighthouse, on rock in the Atlantic, Tyree par., Argyllshire, 10 miles SW. of Tyree island; is 158 ft. high, with revolving light 150 ft. above high water and seen 18 miles, and was constructed in 1838-44 at a cost of £86,977.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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