Eilean Musdile

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Eilean Musdile, also Mousedale, is a small, uninhabited Scottish island on the border of the unitary authority Argyll and Bute. There are two landing points for boats, so that the island can be approached both from the north and from the south. 1794 Standing Stone on the south coast of the island was noted. The rough-hewn block of granite sticking out of an area of ​​90 cm × 60 cm up to a height of 2.75 m. He is now no longer exists, and was probably removed during the construction of the lighthouse.

Geography

The island is located at the intersection between the Straits Firth of Lorne to the south and the Mull Sound in the north and the estuary of Loch Linnhe. It is only separated by a hundred -meter-wide waterway from the north-eastern island of Lismore, which falls almost dry at low water. The nearest town on the Scottish mainland is the seven kilometers to the southern tip of the Morvern peninsula in Highland. The Argyll and Bute coast in the vicinity of Oban is eight kilometers away.

The Eilean Musdile has an elongated shape with a maximum length of 690 m and a maximum width of 140 m. Its area is about 40,000 m2. A transverse furrow almost constricted from the northern part of the island, so that at high tide only a narrow ridge connects the two parts. There is a bridge that allows the safe passage of all water levels at this point.

Lismore Lighthouse

1833 was taken after several years of construction of the Lismore Lighthouse in operation. Although his name points to the neighboring island of Lismore, this is at the southern tip of Eilean Musdile. The 26 m high tower was modernized and automated in 1965 and is classified in the highest category A Scottish monument since 1971. He radiates every ten seconds from a white signal. The construction costs of the proposed by Robert Stevenson building at that time amounted to £ 4,260.