Fife Ness Lighthouse - Crail

Fife Ness (Scottish Gaelic: Rubha Fiobha) is a headland forming the most eastern point in Fife just above Crail. Anciently the area was called Muck Ross, which is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic Muc-Rois meaning "Headland of the Pigs". It is situated in the area of Fife known as the East Neuk, and forms the muzzle of the dog-like outline of the latter when viewed on a map. Ness is an archaic Norse word meaning "nose". Fife Ness was home to a Coastguard station and an important Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouse built in 1975 warning shipping of the headland and the North Carr shoals. The lighthouse was built to replace the last in a series of light vessels that guarded the treacherous rocks, as it had proved impossible to build a permanent lighthouse on the rocks themselves.