Copinsay Orkney Islands

The name Copinsay was originally Kobeinn's Island. The island is situated on the east side of the Orkney archipelago.
The lighthouse engineer was David Stevenson and the light was first exhibited on 8th November 1915. The tower was built by two contractors, the first was a Mr McDougall who built the first 30 feet of the tower but unfortunately became bankrupt, the towers remaining 23 feet being completed by Mr Harry Ramsey Taylor an architect from Edinburgh.
The lighthouse is a Category B listed building.
The initial apparatus installed was a Stevenson equiangular refractor flashing white light, the lamp was a petroleum vapour burner using paraffin on the tilley light principle made by Chance Brothers of Smethwick near Birmingham. The lantern parapet, revolving machinery and mercury trough were made by the Edinburgh firm of James Milner and Son.
Copinsay is now uninhabited, the final inhabitants heading to the mainland in 1958.
The island was purchased in 1972 by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds who now manage it as an ornithological reserve.
The light was automated in 1991 and is now remotely monitored by the NLB from Edinburgh.