Barra Head Lighthouse
Berneray, Inverness-shire
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Photo by Bob
Jones
This lighthouse marks the southern entrance to
the Sea of the Hebrides. The light station is located on top of vertical cliffs
on the narrow western spine of Berneray, southernmost of the Western Isles.
Although known as Barra Head lighthouse, it is actually situated at Skate Point,
about a mile north-west of Barra Head.
Robert Stevenson used local granite
to build the lighthouse above Skate Point in 1833.
From 1931 until the early 1970s, when it was
automated, the lighthouse keepers and their families were the only residents on
the island. It was converted to
A track leads to the lighthouse from the
landing point on the north coast of the island.
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