Bunessan
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Bunessan village viewed from the road to Fionnphort | |
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), meaning "bottom of the waterfall",[2] is a small village on the Ross of Mull, a peninsula in the south-west of the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. The settlement is at OS grid reference NM382218,[3] within the parish of Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon,[4] and is situated on the A849,[5] at the head of a cove at the southern end of Loch na Làthaich.