Monument record 424 - TIUMPAN HEAD LIGHTHOUSE

NB53NE 2 5733 3772

(Location cited as NB 573 377). Tiumpan Head Lighthouse, completed 1900, engineer D Alan Stevenson. A short tapering circular tower with flat-roofed single-storey keepers' houses and ancillary buildings.
J R Hume 1977.

Permission to build this lighthouse was initially refused by the Board of Trade, but the proposal was revived on the recommendation of the Western Highlands and Islands Commission; a watch for illegal trawlers was authorised. The lighthouse was visited by HM the Queen in 1956.
R W Munro 1979.

Automated 1985.
K Allardyce and E M Hood 1986.

J R Hume, 1977a, The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland, 300 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3562.

R W Munro, 1979, Scottish Lighthouses, 204, 240, 255, 276 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5814.

Admiralty list of lights, 1980, Admiralty list of Lights and Fog Signals: volume A: British Isles and North Coast of France..., 259, no. 3972 (Bibliographic reference). SWE28639.

W Minchinton, 1984, A Guide to Industrial Archaeology Sites in Britain, 180 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5613.

K and E M Allardyce and Hood, 1986, At Scotland's Edge: a celebration of two hundred years of the lighthouse service in Scotland..., 154, 155 (Bibliographic reference). SWE11890.