Described as an 'occasional anchorage and landing place' in Admiralty Sailing Directions of 1870, with it being 'necessary to keep the western shores abroad, so as to avoid some outlying and straggling rocks upon the opposite sides, and they must be quited the istant the wind includes inward'.

Sources included:
Admiralty, 1870, Sailing Directions for the West Coast of England from Milford Haven to the Mull of Galloway including the Isle of Man, pg4

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, August 2014.