Loch Ryan Loch Rìoghaine | |
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Location | Scots Lawlands, Scotland |
Coordinates | 54°59′10″N 5°03′18″W / 54.986°N 5.055°W |
Teep | Sea loch |
Primary inflows | Watter o App, Glen Burn |
Primar ootflows | North Channel |
Catchment area | 197 km2 (76 sq mi)[1] |
Basin kintras | Scotland |
Max. lenth | 13.4 kilometer (8.3 mi)[1] |
Max. deepth | 16 m (52 ft)[1] |
Surface elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
Settlements | Stranrawer, The Cairn, Kirkcoam |
![]() Cairn Punt licthoose viewed faed the soothwast in 2009 | |
Scotland | |
Location | The Cairn Dumfries an Gallowa Scotland Unitit Kinrick |
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Coordinates | 54°58′28″N 5°01′51″W / 54.974468°N 5.030861°WCoordinates: 54°58′28″N 5°01′51″W / 54.974468°N 5.030861°W |
Year first constructit | 1847 |
Automatit | 1964 |
Construction | masonry tour |
Touer shape | cylindrical tour wi balcony an lantern attacht tae ae 1-storey keeper’s hoose |
Merkins / pattern | white tour, black lantern, ochre trim |
Hicht | 15 metre (49 ft) |
Focal hicht | 14 metre (46 ft) |
Licht soorce | mains pouer |
Range | 12 nautical mile (22 km; 14 mi) |
Admiralty nummer | A4592 |
NGA nummer | 4784 |
ARLHS nummer | SCO-029 |
Managin augent | Northern Lighthouse Board[2][3] |
Loch Ryan (Gaelic: Loch Rìoghaine, pronoonced [ɫ̪ɔx r̴iː.ɛɲə]) is a Scots sea loch that acts as an important naitural harbour for shippin, providin calm watters for ferrys operatin atween Scotland an Northren Ireland. The toun o Stranrawer is the lairgest sattlement on its shores, wi ferrys tae an fae Northren Ireland operatin fae The Cairn forder north on the loch.