Mention Mull of Kintyre and first thoughts is the ex-Beatles Paul McCartney’s hit tune of the same name.

The Mull of Kintyre is located on the southern tip of Kintyre peninsula, and the most southerly point of Home of Golf nation.

The word ‘Mull’ is Gaelic and means a rounded hill, a summit, and a mountain that is bare of trees.

There is certainly no trees on this mostly windswept, rocky and very steep location, and certainly no sandy beach where a full Scottish pipe band could march, as we know from watching the official video clip of the 1977 Wings song.

The only man-made features on his lonely but spectacular point in Scotland include the road leading to the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse and sadly, a memorial built shortly after the 1994 British military disaster when 29 persons were killed when a chinook helicopter travelling from Northern Ireland to Inverness slammed into the then heavily fog-engufled headland.

On a clear day you can see the coast of Ulster at County Antrim, about 12 miles away across the Irish Sea.

                            The Mull of Kintyre – Next Stop Northern Ireland

                    Bernie at the Mull of Kintyre and overlooking the Irish Sea

Sadly there is one other point of interest at the Mull of Kintyre and that is a memorial remembering 29 persons, including two pilots, who were killed in June 1994 when a British military Chinook helicopter crashed in thick fog.

           Putechan Graveyard, Glenbarr, Kintyre to the north of Machrihanish                                                                    Image – GolfByTourMiss

                     Putechan Graveyard, Glenbarr, Kintyre – Image GolfByTourMiss