Bunessan
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Bunessan village viewed from the road to Fionnphort | |
Bunessan Location within Argyll and Bute | |
Population | 107 (1961) |
OS grid reference | NM381217 |
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Council area | |
Lieutenancy area | |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | ISLE OF MULL |
Postcode district | PA67 |
Dialling code | 01681 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
UK Parliament | |
Scottish Parliament | |
Bunessan Lighthouse Eileanan Liathanaitch Gray Islands | |
Coordinates | 56°20′34″N 6°16′22″W / 56.342770°N 6.272858°W |
Constructed | 1901 (first) |
Construction | metal skeletal tower |
Automated | 2001 |
Height | 5 metres (16 ft) |
Shape | quadrangular tower with aluminium panels as daymark |
Markings | white tower |
Operator | Northern Lighthouse Board[1] |
First lit | 2001 (current) |
Deactivated | 2001 (first) |
Focal height | 12 metres (39 ft) |
Range | 8 nmi (15 km; 9.2 mi) (white), 6 nmi (11 km; 6.9 mi) (red) |
Characteristic | Fl WR 6s. |
Bunessan (Scottish Gaelic: Bun Easain) is a small village on the Ross of Mull in the south-west of the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon,[2] and is situated on the A849.[3]
Community
In 1961 it had a population of 107.[2] A village hall is used for dances throughout the year. The primary school for the Ross of Mull is found in Bunessan.
Economy
Business has included crofting, a mill (now home to the Ross of Mull Historical Centre), weaving and a small fishing fleet, up to the end of the 20th century. The village still has a lobster fishery.[4]
Bunessan village has one hotel, The Argyll Arms (the only pub in the area), one grocery shop and a craft shop.
Hymn tune
Mary M. Macdonald (Màiri Dhòmhnallach) from the nearby crofting community of Ardtun used a traditional local melody for her Scottish Gaelic Christmas carol "Leanabh an àigh". In the 1880s Lachlan Macbean translated the text as "Child in the Manger" and called the air "Bunessan". The tune was reused in the 1930s for the hymn "Morning Has Broken".
Lighthouse
Bunessan lighthouse is located on a skerry of Gray Island in the entrance to Loch na Lathaich and the harbour of Bunessan. The present lighthouse is a metal skeletal tower covered by white aluminium panel as day mark and the light on the top. The light emits a white or red flash, depending on the direction every 6 seconds.
See also
References
- ↑ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Scotland: Argyll and Bute". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
- 1 2 "Details of Bunessan". Scottish Places. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ↑ "A849". Sabre. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ↑ "Bunessan: Argyll and Bute". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
External links
- Canmore - Mull, Bunessan, Kilvickeon Church site record
- Canmore - Mull, An Caisteal site record
- Canmore - Mull, Bunessan site record
- Canmore - Mull, Sheepknowe Cottage site record
- Canmore - Mull, Bunessan, Mill Brae site record
- Northern Lighthouse Board
- Closeup of the lighthouse