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. William Smith, a 19th-century British Classicist identifies the point with the Novantarum Promontorium mentioned by Ptolemy in his Geography as the most northerly point of the peninsula of the Novantae in Britannia Barbara.