Eilean Musdile
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "lighthouse tracking".Expression error: Unexpected < operator. 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.[1] It is a low-lying rock, Script error: No such module "convert". in size,[1] 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[2] and initially showed a fixed white light.[1] 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.[1]
A Standing Stone once stood on the highest point of the island (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".). The Script error: No such module "convert". monolith appears to have recorded the midwinter sunsetScript error: No such module "Unsubst". and is thought to have been removed during construction of the lighthouse.[3]
The skerry of Lady's Rock lies a short distance to the south west.
See also
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External links
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