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Skerryvore Lighthouse
The construction of Scotland’s tallest 48m (158ft) high lighthouse, on a treacherous low lying reef 10 miles south-west of Tiree, under often appalling weather conditions, was Alan Stevenson’s greatest engineering achievement. The lighthouse was built out of granite quarried on the Ross of Mull and then shipped over to the base at Hynish on Tiree. It took 6 years to build and was finally lit in 1844. The story of the light is told at the Skerryvore Lighthouse Museum in the former lighthouse Signal Tower on Tiree.
