page_title: Fife Ness
hierarchical_section_title: Fife Ness
caption_attribution_description: English: Fife Ness Lighthouse. Located at the easternmost point of Fife, marking the north side of the entrance to the Firth of Forth. An example of a low-rise lighthouse. The dark hut below and to the right is a birdwatching hide. Large numbers of birds pass close by just offshore on migration every spring and autumn.
context_page_description: Fife Ness is a headland forming the most eastern point in Fife. 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 until 2012 and an important Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouse built in 1975 on project by P. H. Hyslop, warning shipping of the headland and the North Carr shoals. The lighthouse was built to replace the last in a series of lightvessels that guarded the treacherous rocks, as it had proved impossible to build a permanent lighthouse on the rocks themselves.
  Fife Ness is also surrounded by the links terrain of Crail Golfing Society.
context_section_description: Fife Ness (Scottish Gaelic: Rubha Fiobha) is a headland forming the most eastern point in Fife. 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 until 2012 and an important Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouse built in 1975 on project by P. H. Hyslop, warning shipping of the headland and the North Carr shoals. The lighthouse was built to replace the last in a series of lightvessels that guarded the treacherous rocks, as it had proved impossible to build a permanent lighthouse on the rocks themselves.
  Fife Ness is also surrounded by the links terrain of Crail Golfing Society.
caption: Fife Ness Light, August 2008
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