Loch Ryan

Loch Ryan Loch Rìoghaine
Location	Scots Lawlands, Scotland
Coordinates	54°59′10″N 5°03′18″W / 54.986°N 5.055°W / 54.986; -5.055
Teep	Sea loch
Primary inflows	Watter o App, Glen Burn
Primar ootflows	North Channel
Catchment area	197 km2 (76 sq mi)[1]
Basin kintras	Scotland
Max. lenth	13.4 kilometer (8.3 mi)[1]
Max. deepth	16 m (52 ft)[1]
Surface elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Settlements	Stranrawer, The Cairn, Kirkcoam

Loch Ryan Lichthoose
Cairn Pynt

Cairn Punt licthoose viewed faed the soothwast in 2009
Scotland
Location	The Cairn Dumfries an Gallowa Scotland Unitit Kinrick
Coordinates	54°58′28″N 5°01′51″W / 54.974468°N 5.030861°W / 54.974468; -5.030861Coordinates: 54°58′28″N 5°01′51″W / 54.974468°N 5.030861°W / 54.974468; -5.030861
Year first constructit	1847
Automatit	1964
Construction	masonry tour
Touer shape	cylindrical tour wi balcony an lantern attacht tae ae 1-storey keeper’s hoose
Merkins / pattern	white tour, black lantern, ochre trim
Hicht	15 metre (49 ft)
Focal hicht	14 metre (46 ft)
Licht soorce	mains pouer
Range	12 nautical mile (22 km; 14 mi)
Admiralty nummer	A4592
NGA nummer	4784
ARLHS nummer	SCO-029
Managin augent	Northern Lighthouse Board[2][3]

Loch Ryan (Gaelic: Loch Rìoghaine, pronoonced [ɫ̪ɔx r̴iː.ɛɲə]) is a Scots sea loch that acts as an important naitural harbour for shippin, providin calm watters for ferrys operatin atween Scotland an Northren Ireland. The toun o Stranrawer is the lairgest sattlement on its shores, wi ferrys tae an fae Northren Ireland operatin fae The Cairn forder north on the loch.

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Scottish Environment Protection Agency "Shellfish Growing Areas, Loch Ryan" Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 16 March 2011
2. ↑ Loch Ryan (Cairnryan Point) Archived 2018-03-15 at the Wayback Machine The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 17 May 2016
3. ↑ Loch Ryan Light Lighthouse Explorer. Retrieved 17 May 2016