Corsewall Point
{{Short description|Headland in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland}}
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Corsewall Point, or Corsill Point, is the headland at the northwestern end of the Rhins of Galloway, in Dumfries and Galloway, west of Scotland.{{Cite web|url=https://geoguide.scottishgeologytrust.org/p/gcr/gcr18/gcr18_corsewallpoint|title=Corsewall Point | GeoGuide|website=geoguide.scottishgeologytrust.org}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-marine-freshwater-science-volume-3-number-3-clyde-ecosystem/pages/3/|title=3. THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE CLYDE SEA|date=7 May 2021|website=www.gov.scot}} 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.{{cite book|author=Chambers, Robert|title=The Gazetteer of Scotland|year=1836|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2c1JAQAAIAAJ&q=corsill+point&pg=PA158|page=158}}{{Cite web|url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/60412/corsewall-lighthouse|title=Corsewall Lighthouse | Canmore|website=canmore.org.uk}}
Sources
- William Smith, a 19th-century British Classicist identifies the point with the Novantarum Promontorium ({{langx|grc|Νοουαντῶν ἄκρον}}) mentioned by Ptolemy in his GeographyPtol., Geog. 2.3.1 as the most northerly point of the peninsula of the Novantae in Britannia Barbara.{{Cite DGRG|title=Novantarum Promontorium}}
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