Corsewall Point Explained

Corsewall Point, or Corsill Point, is the headland at the northwestern end of the Rhins of Galloway, in Dumfries and Galloway, west of Scotland.^[1]

Corsewall Point is the southeasterly boundary point between the Firth of Clyde and the North Channel, with the southerly tip of the Kintyre Peninsula the northwest point.^[2] The North Channel is customarily considered as part of the Irish Sea.

Lighthouse

See also: Corsewall Lighthouse.

A lighthouse, Corsewall Lighthouse, was built on the headland in 1816, to assist vessels passing the headland in the area of the Firth of Clyde and North Channel boundary.^{[3] [4]}

Sources

• William Smith, a 19th-century British Classicist identifies the point with the Novantarum Promontorium (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Νοουαντῶν ἄκρον) mentioned by Ptolemy in his Geography^[5] as the most northerly point of the peninsula of the Novantae in Britannia Barbara.^[6]

References

Notes and References

1. Web site: Corsewall Point | GeoGuide. geoguide.scottishgeologytrust.org.
2. Web site: 3. THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE CLYDE SEA. 7 May 2021. www.gov.scot.
3. Book: Chambers, Robert. The Gazetteer of Scotland. 1836. 158.
4. Web site: Corsewall Lighthouse | Canmore. canmore.org.uk.
5. Ptol., Geog. 2.3.1
6. Novantarum Promontorium.