Corsewall Point

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 (Ancient Greek: Νοουαντῶν ἄκρον) mentioned by Ptolemy in his Geography[2] as the most northerly point of the peninsula of the Novantae in Britannia Barbara.[3]

References

1. Chambers, Robert (1836). The Gazetteer of Scotland. p. 158.
2. Ptol., Geog. 2.3.1
3.  Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Novantarum Promontorium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.