The square wooden tower had an attached dwelling for the light keeper's family.

The lighthouse was equipped with a catoptric lens and was lit for the first time on 10 October 1879.

[1] The lighthouse was decommissioned after a light was installed on the breakwater at Ingalls Head, at the entrance to Grand Harbour opposite Ross Island.

[3] The lighthouse, along with the whole of Ross Island, which is uninhabited, had been purchased by an American businessman in 1984.

[1] An effort spearheaded by Lighthouse Digest to raise enough money to save the building, in which the owner undertook to match funds donated by the public in 60 days, was unsuccessful.