Little Ross is a small island with a lighthouse in Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. It was one of the nine administrative 'regions' of mainland Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government etc. Act 1973...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. It is next to Meikle Ross on the mainland, which is a headland, and there are two small rocks off it, Sugarloaf and Fox Craig.

Lighthouse

The lighthouse was constructed in 1843 by Alan Stevenson

Alan Stevenson

Alan Stevenson FRSE MInstCE was a Scottish lighthouse engineer who was Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses...

, it is approximately 66 feet tall and has been automated since 1961.

1960 Murder

In August 1960 two relief lighthouse keepers were in duty during the holiday of the principal keeper. The secretary of the local RNLI arrived on the island with his son for lunch and a walk and discovered the body of one of the keepers. After a nationwide hunt the other relief keeper was arrested and found guilty of murder for which he was sentenced to hang.

See also

• List of outlying islands of Scotland