Corsewall Point

55.008149°N 5.160497°W / 55.008149; -5.160497

Ancient Fort at Corsewall Point

Corsewall Point, or Corsill Point, is a headland on the northwest coast of Wigtonshire, Kirkcolm near Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. A lighthouse, Corsewall Lighthouse was placed here in 1816, for the directing of vessels from the Scottish side into the Irish Channel.[1] William Smith, a 19th-century British Classicist identifies the point with the Novantarum Promontorium (Ancient Greek: Νοουαντῶν ἄκρον) mentioned by Ptolemy in his Geography[2] as the most northerly point of the peninsula of the Novantae in Britannia Barbara.[3]

References
  1. Chambers, Robert (1836). The Gazetteer of Scotland. p. 158.
  2. Ptol., Geog. 2.3.1
  3. Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Novantarum Promontorium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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