Little Ross

Little Ross Lighthouse
*Range Rear*
	Gypsy point looking over to Little Ross Island with two lighthouses
Location	Little Ross Island; Kirkcudbright; Dumfries and Galloway; Scotland; United Kingdom
Coordinates	54°45′N 4°05′W / 54.75°N 4.08°W
Constructed	1843
Construction	masonry tower
Automated	1961
Height	22 metres (72 ft)
Shape	cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern attached to 1-storey keeper’s house
Markings	white tower, black lantern, ochre trim
Operator	Northern Lighthouse Board
Light
Focal height	50 metres (160 ft)
Light source	solar power
Characteristic	Fl W 5s.

Little Ross is a small island with a lighthouse in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is next to Meikle Ross on the mainland, which is a headland, and there are two small rocks off it, Sugarloaf and Fox Craig.

Lighthouse

The lighthouse was constructed in 1843 by Alan Stevenson, it is approximately 66 feet tall^[2] and has been automated since 1961.^[3]

1960 Murder

In August 1960 two relief lighthouse keepers were on duty the holiday of the principal keeper. The secretary of the local RNLI arrived on the island with his son for lunch and a walk and discovered the body of one of the keepers, Hugh Clark. After a nationwide hunt the other relief keeper, Robert Dickson was arrested and found guilty of murder for which he was sentenced to hang.^[4]

References

^ Little Ross (Range Rear) The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 17 May 2016
^ http://www.scottishradiance.com/light/light204.htm
^ Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
^ http://www.kirkcudbright.com/dynamic.asp?ID=66 Kirkcudbright Community Website

External links

Northern Lighthouse Board

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[1] Little Ross (Range Rear) The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 17 May 2016

[2] ttp://www.scottishradiance.com/light/light204.htm

[Smith-3] Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.

[4] ttp://www.kirkcudbright.com/dynamic.asp?ID=66 Kirkcudbright Community Website

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v t e Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board
Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass Rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry Corran Point Corsewall Covesea Skerries Crammag Head Davaar Duncansby Head Dunnet Head Fidra Fife Ness Girdle Ness Holy Island (Outer) Inchkeith Isle of May Kinnaird Head Mull of Galloway Mull of Kintyre North Rona Noss Head Pladda Rattray Head Rubh Re St Abbs Head Sanda Scurdie Ness Stoer Head Strathy Point Stroma Sule Skerry Tarbat Ness Turnberry Minor lights
The Hebrides	Barra Head Butt of Lewis Dubh Artach Eilean Glas Flannan Islands Haskeir Hyskeir Lismore Monach Neist Point Ornsay Rinns of Islay Rubha nan Gall Rona Ruvaal Scarinish Skerryvore Tiumpan Head Ushenish Minor lights
Orkney	Auskerry Brough of Birsay Cantick Head Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Minor lights
Shetland	Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Hoo Stack Little Holm Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights
Isle of Man	Chicken Rock Douglas Head Langness (minor light) Maughold Head Point of Ayre Thousla Rock (minor light)

Lighthouse

1960 Murder

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