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Lismore Lighthouse
Eilean Musdile
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The lighthouse on Eilean Musdile from the Oban to Craignure ferry.
Location Eilean Musdile
Firth of Lorn
Scotland
Coordinates 56°27′20.1″N 5°36′26.6″W / 56.455583°N 5.607389°W / 56.455583; -5.607389
Year first constructed 1833
Automated June 1965
Construction masonry tower
Tower shape cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern attached to 1-storey keepe's house
Markings / pattern white tower and lantern, ochre trim
Height 26 metres (85 ft)
Focal height 31 metres (102 ft)
Intensity 71,000 candela
Range 17 miles (27 km)
Characteristic Fl W 10s.
Admiralty number A4170
NGA number 4072
ARLHS number SCO-121

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 (4.0 hectares) 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 . 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.

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