Copied newspaper article about the Congregational Chapel at Cornaig.
Article about saving the Congregational Chapel at Cornaig, suggesting it may have built by the Skerryvore stonemasons, also the state of Tiree`s listed buildings and new housing developments and comments by Councillor Ian Gillies.
Photo from the Ross of Mull Historical Society 2005 calendar with a photo of quarryworkers` cottages at Camas.
The former quarry workers’ cottages at Camas in the Ross of Mull. Stone from the quarry was used to build the Skerryvore and Ardnamurchan lighthouses. (Calendar page for December 2005 in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 3)
Book `Discover the Ross..`
Guide to the Ross of Mull illustrated with colour photographs, including information about Skerryvore Lighthouse and Hynish on Tiree. (Pages 29-30)
De-accessioned 26.2.2026.
Copied extract from `Account of Skerryvore Lighthouse` by Alan Stevenson.
Plan of Skerryvore rocks at high and low tides, chart of the position of Skerryvore rocks in relation to Tiree surveyed in 1846 (2 pages) and plan of the Hynish complex showing the pier, dock, reservoir, lightkeepers` and seamen`s houses, etc. (2 pages).
Folder with typewritten account `The Buildings of Tiree` by Geoffrey Stell, ca 1970.
Typewritten account `The Buildings of Tiree` by Geoffrey Stell typed on paper from publishers Gee & Co of the Strand, London, plus an accompanying map of Tiree hand-drawn by Mary Robertson.
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Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 13, 1995.
Articles about Skerryvore lighthouse, WWII, pigeons, RSPB, emigration and the `Brilliant`, a school trip, holiday-makers, fishing competitions, the Coll show, Project Trust and bees among others.
Photocopied book extract from `George Douglas, Eighth Duke of Argyll` edited by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll, pp 133-147, 285-6, 321, 508 & 633.
Extracts about the landscape of Tiree, its people and surroundings seas, Skerryvore lighthouse, the potato famine and emigration, some local birds and bird-shooting.
Forwarded e-mail from the Northern Lighthouse Board about the Skerryvore Steamer.
Forwarded e-mail from the Information Officer of the Northern Lighthouse Board about the paddle steamer `Skerryvore` which was built in 1839 in connection with the construction of Skerryvore lighthouse.
Colour photograph of the view of Tiree from Skerryvore.
The view of Tiree from Skerryvore photographed while aboard the Scimitar of Skipinnish Tours in July 2004.
Skerryvore Lighthouse
Photograph of Skerryvore Lighthouse in 2004.
Situated 12 miles southwest of Tiree, Skerryvore lighthouse was built between 1835 and 1842 by Alan Stevenson, Clerk of Works to the Northern Lighthouse Board, on a reef that had wrecked ships over many years
The lighthouse stands 42 metes high, weighs a total of 58,580 tons and has walls 2.9 metres thick at the base. The lower four courses are built from grey Tiree granite which proved too hard and time-consuming to dress. The remainder of the tower is built from more workable pink granite shipped from the Ross of Mull.
It was described by the Institute of Civil Engineers as ‘the finest combination of mass with elegance to be met with in architectural or engineering structures’.
Colour photograph of Skerryvore lighthouse in July 2004.
Skerryvore lighthouse in July 2004.
