Identifier: journalofroyalso1899roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
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Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ginningof the inscription. But the most interesting bit of carving remaining is the Dragon, PROCEKDINGS. 287 on the buttress, in the right-hand corner facing the entrance. Before leaving theChaniher take up a position witli your hatk to the inner ^-aW, and face the entrance.The view through the entrance passage is then very restricted, but careful observationwill enable you to discern, in the distance, the stone of Tormiston, already referredto; and an interesting fact, pointed out in the Paper referred to is, that the_ distancebetween this spot and the stone at Tormiston is the same as that from it to theWatch-stone. Kirkwall and its Cathedkal. The run from Stromness to Scapa Bay takes about an hour. Shortlyafter rounding Houton Head, and passing the Holm of the same namewill be observed the parish church of Orphir, at the east side of which,and almost adjoining it, are the remains of a circular church ; nothingbut the aemi-circular apse and a fragment of the arc on cich side remain.
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Kirkwall Cathedral. Ground-plan. This is the only kuown church of the kind in ^Scotland, although thereare five in England. This one was built in the beginning of the twelfthcentury. Near it stood the palace of the Earls of Orkney, probably atthe site of the faim house nearest the ruin. In a bay in this vicinityKing Haco arrived in Orkney after his defeat at Largs, and went over-land to Kirkwall, where he died in the Bishops Palace. From the anchorage in Scapa Bay may be seen the roofs of the housesin Kirkwall overtopped by the cathedral. The site chosen for its erectionmakes its tower a landmark seen from a longdistance, from Caithness inthe south, and from several of the north Isles of Orkney. In Scapa Bay,N.N.W. from the anchorage, there is a distillery with a burn alongsideof it running into the bay. At the mouth of this burn on its west side 288 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. is the Broeh of Lingrow, with its numerous secondary buildings. ThisBroch yielded many interest

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