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 authorities. Many of the more minor lights are not shown. A lighthouse that is no longer operating is indicated by the date of closure in the operated by column. Where two dates are shown, the lighthouse has been rebuilt.
Nearly all the lighthouses in this list were designed by and most were built by four generations of one family, including Thomas Smith, who was both the stepfather and father-in-law of Robert Stevenson. Robert's sons and grandsons not only built most of the lights, often under the most appalling of conditions, but pioneered many of the improvements in lighting and signalling that cut down the enormous loss of life in shipping around the coasts of Scotland.
The table may be sorted by any column by clicking on the heading.
Auskerry
Barns Ness
Barra Head
Bell Rock
Duncansby Head
Dubh artach
Elie Ness
Fidra
Flannan Isles
Holy Island, Arran
Killantringan
Kinnaird
Isle of May
Muckle Flugga
Mull of Galloway
Neist Point
Old Lighthouse, North Ronaldsay
Outskerries
Oxcars
Pentland Skerries
Pladda
Rattray Head
Rubha nan Gall
Skerryvore
Southerness
St Abb's Head
Sumburgh
Tarbat Ness
Optic from Tarbat Ness
Eilean Trodday Light
Cape Wrath
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