Little Ross is a island with a lighthouse
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"An entire Scottish island is on sale for just £325k - but it has a disturbing past"
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. on the Solway Coast south of the town of
Kirkcudbright
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Galloway
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"Idyllic Scottish island up for sale for just £325k – but it has a chilling past"
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. 2017-07-14. It is next to Meikle Ross on the mainland, which is a headland, and there are two small rocks off it, Sugarloaf and Fox Craig. The island can only be accessed by private boat or helicopter. Its sole electricity is supplied by solar panels and a
small wind turbine
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[ The island is well known for the murder of one of its lighthouse keepers, Hugh Clark.
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History
The lighthouse was constructed in 1843 by Alan Stevenson
Alan Stevenson FRSE LLD MInstCE (28 April 1807 – 23 December 1865) was a Scottish civil engineer, known for designing and building lighthouses in and around Scotland.
Life
Alan Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on 28 April 1807, the eldest ...
. It was built at the mouth of Kirkcudbright Bay to close the gap between other lighthouses at the Mull of Galloway and Southerness.[ It is approximately 66 feet tall. In the 1900s, the island was home to the head lighthouse keeper, underkeeper and their families, which totaled 16 people, whose food was provided by a small dairy and piggery on the island.][
In August 1960 two relief lighthouse keepers were on duty during the holiday of the principal keeper. The secretary of the local RNLI arrived on the island with his son for lunch and a walk and discovered the body of one of the keepers, Hugh Clark. After a nationwide hunt the other relief keeper, Robert Dickson was arrested and found guilty of murder for which he was initially sentenced to hang, a sentence subsequently changed to life imprisonment.][O'Callaghan, Lauren (2017-07-17)]
"Scottish island for sale for just £325,000 but hides a grisly secret past"
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The lighthouse was manned until the murder,[ and has been automated since 1961.]electrical grid
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, so its sole electricity is supplied by solar panels and a small wind turbine.[ It is owned and managed by the Commissioners for Northern Lighthouses, who make regular maintenance visits to the property throughout the year.][
In July 2017 the island was put on sale for £325,000 ]GBP
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with Estate Agents Galbraith, which is comparable in price to a same price as a two-bedroom apartment in Edinburgh
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,[ and less than a two-bedroom apartment in London.][ The property listing included a six-bedroom, B-listed cottage, but does not include the lighthouse. The listing does include three B-listed, "ruinous" barns][ and a courtyard.][Kitching, Chris (2017-07-17)]
"Remote Scottish island up for sale for just £325k - but its grisly past may scare off potential buyers"
'' The Mirror''. David Corrie, senior associate at the property agency Galbraith, Castle Douglas, noted that "Private islands rarely come up for sale at an affordable price and particularly one with a habitable house and additional properties."[
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See also
* List of lighthouses in Scotland
This is a list of lighthouses in Scotland. The Northern Lighthouse Board, from which much of the information is derived, are responsible for most lighthouses in Scotland but have handed over responsibility in the major estuaries to the port aut ...
* List of Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses
This is a list of the currently operational lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB). The list is divided by geographical location, and then by whether the lighthouses are classed by the NLB as a 'major lighthouse' or a 'minor light'. F ...
* List of outlying islands of Scotland
The outlying islands of Scotland are not part of the larger archipelagos and island groups of Scotland—the Hebrides, the Northern Isles or the Islands of the Forth and Clyde estuaries. None of these islands are currently inhabited and few ...
References
External links
Northern Lighthouse Board
Publications
''Life and Death on Little Ross, The Story of an island, a lighthouse and its keepers''
by David R. Collin
Whittles Publishing
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Islands of the Solway
1960 in Scotland