Corsewall Point
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Corsewall Point, or Corsill Point, is the headland at the north-western end of the Rhinns of Galloway, in Wigtownshire. It is considered the south-easterly boundary point between the Firth of Clyde and the North Channel, with the southerly tip of the Kintyre Peninsula the north-west point.
William Smith, a 19th-century Classicist, identifies the point with the Novantarum Promontorium (Νοουαντῶν ἄκρον) mentioned by Ptolemy in his Geographia[1] as the most northerly point of the peninsula of the Novantae in Britannia Barbara.
Lighthouse
- Main article: Corsewall Lighthouse
A lighthouse, Corsewall Lighthouse, was built on the headland in 1816, to assist vessels passing the headland in the area of the Firth of Clyde and North Channel boundary.[2][3]
Location
- Location map: 55°-0’31"N, 5°9’26"W
- Streetmap: NW982728
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Ptol., Geog. 2.3.1
- ↑ Chambers, Robert (1836). The Gazetteer of Scotland. p. 158. https://books.google.com/books?id=2c1JAQAAIAAJ&q=corsill+point&pg=PA158.
- ↑ RCAHMS record of Corsewall Lighthouse