Alternative Names River Irvine; River Garnock
Site type PILOT OFFICE, SIGNALLING STRUCTURE, TIDE GAUGE
Canmore ID 181690
Site Number NS33NW 40.02
NGR NS 30387 37971
Council NORTH AYRSHIRE
Parish DUNDONALD (CUNNINGHAME)
Former Region STRATHCLYDE
Former District CUNNINGHAME
Former County AYRSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NS33NW 40.02 30387 37971 and 30369 37993

Pilot House [NAT] (at NS 30386 37970)
Tide Gauge [NAT] (at NS 30369 37993)
OS 1:1250 map, 1956.

Notes and Activities

1995	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT

Notes Account of Harbourmaster Martin Boyd's 1903 patent: The Automatic Tide Marker Station

Further details

8 September 2009

SITE MANAGEMENT

Project Buildings at Risk Register BARR

Notes 4-storey, square tower, monitoring station. Rubble stone, rendered and lined as ashlar, wallhead cornice. Principal elevation (west): window to each floor off-set to left, lamp openings with flat hoods to centre 4 cast-iron grilles to right. 4, 6 and 18-pane windows, roofless design, mast and rigging rising from centre of tower, cast-iron hoppers and downpipes at ground floor to E. Built to house 'Boyd's Automatic System' for indicating the depth of water at the bar, patented by the Harbour Master, Martin Boyd, in 1904. (Historic Scotland)

BARR website http://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/913268

Further details

Books and References

Strawhorn, J (1985) The history of Irvine: Royal burgh and New Town, Edinburgh
Held at RCAHMS D.11.23.IRV

Weir, A (1995) The Automatic Tide Marker Station at Irvine Archive, vol.7, Sept
Page(s): 29-36

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