Gasaigh lighthouse is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 2020. Light beacon.
Gasaigh lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- tenth-plaster-storm
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 December 2020
- Type
- Light beacon
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gasay is a solar-powered minor light (light beacon) dating from 1985. Standing on a square concrete base, Gasay is a square aluminium open lattice tower 6 metres in height. It is topped by an open gallery with a small solar powered lantern and it has white glass-reinforced plastic panels on the east, north and west sides of the tower. The automatic LED lights flash white and red every five seconds and has a range of seven nautical miles for the white light and four nautical miles for the red light. There is a metal ladder mounted inside the aluminium lattice frame leading up to the gallery and solar panels are attached to the southern side of the lighthouse.
Historical development
In 1985 the Northern Lighthouse Board built the present Solar Powered Lattice Aluminium Tower (SPLAT) on the island of Gasay, as part of a transition from older designs of minor light to new gas-powered and solar-powered examples intended to reduce costs. Prior to this there was no navigational light on Gasay. A SPLAT lighthouse was also placed in 1985 on the nearby island of Calvay (LB52572) to replace an earlier light from 1891.
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