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14 Days | Day 7 - Mull Of Kintyre
Lighthouse
at the Mull of Kintyre
South of Campbeltown is the road to Southend
and Mull of Kintyre. The direct road is about 8
miles to Southend with a further 8 miles of single track
road to the lighthouse’. The coast road gives
superb views down the Firth of Clyde beyond the rocky hump
of Ailsa Craig to Ayrshire
and Galloway.
Southend is a small village with marvellous sandy beaches and an 18 hole golf course. Close to the village is Dunaverty rock and St Columba's Footprints as spoken about in the history section.
The Beach At Dunaverty
The road from Southend out to the Mull of Kintyre is
narrow and tortuous, but the journey is well worth the
effort for the spectacular sea views and wild moorland
(and possibly a Golden Eagle). Cars have to be left at
the top of the cliffs above the lighthouse and the final
part of the journey completed on foot; the walk is very
steep. The views to Rathlin Island and the Antrim Coast
of Northern Ireland, across the vicious tide races close
to the shore are quite splendid, as long as Sir Paul
McCartney’s ‘mist rolling in from the sea’ is
elsewhere at the time.
Several aircraft have met their ends on the hills above the lighthouse, mainly during World War Two, but also more recently in 1994, when a military Chinook helicopter, carrying senior army and police security personnel from Northern Ireland flew into the hill at full speed in thick fog. All 29 on board were killed and the spot is marked by a cairn
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