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Corsewall Point

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{{coord|55.008149|-5.160497|display=title}}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.^[1] William Smith, a 19th-century British Classicist identifies the point with the Novantarum Promontorium ({{lang-grc|Νοουαντῶν ἄκρον}}) mentioned by Ptolemy in his Geography^[2] as the most northerly point of the peninsula of the Novantae in Britannia Barbara.^[3]

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1. ^{{cite book|author=Chambers, Robert|title=The Gazetteer of Scotland|year=1836|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2c1JAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=corsill+point&source=bl&ots=_4sG50XfRR&sig=T4WH5HgnX5ouWvOqIEzWzrr0PpU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj814jelevcAhXrrFQKHX4hDLYQ6AEwCXoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=corsill%20point&f=false|page=158}}
2. ^Ptol., Geog. 2.3.1
3. ^{{Cite DGRG|title=Novantarum Promontorium}}

2 : Headlands of Scotland|Wigtownshire

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