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  History
Sweyn Asleif's son had his long hall on the Island of Gairsay, off the east coast of the mainland of Orkney, and lands in Caithness at Freswick, a few miles south of Duncansbay.
The church is reputed to be the actual church in which jarl Magnus spent the night in prayer before he was murdered on 16th April, 1116.
Gairsay - was the island home of Sweyn Asleif's son, grandfather of Gunni, the name-father of the Clan Gunn.
www.clangunnuk.com /html/history.html   (2615 words)

  
  sociology - Gairsay
In the seventeenth century Langskaill was the home to Sir William Craigie of Gairsay, not to be confused with the prominent lexicographer of the same name.
"GAIRSAY, an island, in the parish of Evie and Rendall, county of Orkney; containing 71 inhabitants.
According to census records, in 1831 there were 69 people living on Gairsay, and 71 people in 15 families in 1841.
www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Gairsay   (552 words)

  
 Overview of Gairsay
An island of the Orkney Isles, situated at the head of the Wide Firth between Mainland Orkney and Shapinsay, Gairsay is separated from the island of Wyre to the north by Gairsay Sound.
During the 17th century a mansion house was built by Sir William Craigie at Langskaill on the site of Sweyn's drinking-hall.
There are piers at Langskaill and to the east in the shelter of Millburn Bay which is sheltered by the peninsula known as the Hen of Gairsay.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurefirst1734.html   (199 words)

  
 Two Harrold Families of Orkney: Third Generation
She was aged 73 in the 1851 census of Gairsay and 83 in the 1861 census.
William Harrold was born on the island of Gairsay, parish of Evie and Rendall, Orkney Islands, Scotland 6 July 1815.
Janet Harrold was born in the Parish of Rendall, possibly on the Island of Gairsay in that parish, Orkney Islands, Scotland about 1817.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~teschek/harrold/i0000002.htm   (1024 words)

  
 Gairsay, Rendall, Orkney, Orkney , UK Gairsay, Rendall, Orkney, Orkney Websites   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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www.search4what.net /search.php?qry=Gairsay,+Rendall,+Orkney,+Orkney   (345 words)

  
 Caithness CWS - History - Articles - Swein
He also had a castle on Gairsay in Orkney.
Swein, Rognvald and Harald then negotiated a peace, which was immediately broken by Harald occupying Swein’s estate at Gairsay.
Swein’s utter ruthlessness was demonstrated by him having to be dissuaded from burning down his own house with his wife and daughter inside, only because he was not certain that Harald was there at the time.
www.caithness.org /history/articles/swein.htm   (1672 words)

  
 Two Harrold Families of Orkney: Second Generation
Gairsay belongs to the parish of Evie and Rendall in the Orkney Islands, off Scotland's northern coast, and, like Wyre, is one of the original home islands of the Harrold family, according to Lamb.
Gairsay lies about a mile and a quarter off the coast of the main island in the Orkneys, northeast of Rendall, and 1 1/2 miles northwest of the island of Shapinsay.
Wyre is somewhat larger than Gairsay, lying north of that island, and is part of the parish of Rousay and Egilsay.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~teschek/harrold/i0000001.htm   (703 words)

  
 Gairsay Did You Mean gairsay?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the seventeenth century Langskaill was the home to Sir William Craigie of Gairsay, not to be confused with the prominent lexicographer of the same name.
"GAIRSAY, an island, in the parish of Evie and Rendall, county of Orkney; containing 71 inhabitants.
In recent years the island was owned by one family, named McGill, who purchased the island in 1968 and now farm it and who issue their own postage stamps.
www.did-you-mean.com /Gairsay.html   (663 words)

  
 Einhornmagie.de - Sammeln - Briefmarken - Gairsay
(Gairsay ist eine Insel in den Orkneys, einer Inselgruppe nordöstlich von Schottland.
Sie befindet sich nördlich von Kirkwall, der größten Stadt auf der Hauptinsel (Mainland) der Orkneys zwischen den Inseln Rousay und Shapinsay.
Es gibt einen Postdienst des Besitzers von Gairsay nach Finstown auf der Hauptinsel, gemäß dem POSTAL SERVICES ACT 2000 vom 14.3.2002 (KW 17: Resident (single family) paid £6 per week to make two collections of his own mail from the mainland.
www.einhornmagie.de /Unicorns/Sammeln/Briefmarken/Gairsay/gairsay.html   (117 words)

  
 Einhornmagie.de - Sammeln - Briefmarken - Gairsay
(Gairsay ist eine Insel in den Orkneys, einer Inselgruppe nordöstlich von Schottland.
Sie befindet sich nördlich von Kirkwall, der größten Stadt auf der Hauptinsel (Mainland) der Orkneys zwischen den Inseln Rousay und Shapinsay.
Es gibt einen Postdienst des Besitzers von Gairsay nach Finstown auf der Hauptinsel, gemäß dem POSTAL SERVICES ACT 2000 vom 14.3.2002 (KW 17: Resident (single family) paid £6 per week to make two collections of his own mail from the mainland.
www.angelseven.de /Unicorns/Sammeln/Briefmarken/Gairsay/gairsay.html   (117 words)

  
 Gairsay shown within Orkney Islands Gairsay is an...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gairsay shown within Orkney Islands Gairsay is an...
Gairsay shown within Orkney Islands "Gairsay" is an island in Orkney, Scotland.
Its main settlement was Langaskaill, originally the location of a drinking hall built by Sweyn Asliefsson and then of a mansion built by William Craigie in the seventeenth century.
www.geodatabase.de /Gairsay   (105 words)

  
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Lochs Swannay, Board-house a,nd Hundland are situated in the extreme north, while Loch Kirbister lies near the south coast and Loch Tankerness adjoins Deer Sound.
Off the east coast lie the islands of Rousay, Egilshay, Viera, Eynhallow, Gairsay and Shapinshay, and off the south Copinshay and Lamb Holm.
The hilly country is mostly moorland, and peat-mosses are met with in some of the low-lying land, but many of the valleys contain fertile soil, and there are productive tracts on the eastern and northern seaboard.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=53595   (1156 words)

  
 The Orkneyingers' Saga - The Gold Scales
Next we come to Gairsay, the ancient Gareksey, famous in the Saga as the chief abode of the adventurous Sweyn Asleif's son, though he had other farms in Stronsay and Caithness, where on the Scotch mainland he held Duncansby, and the strong castle of Lambaborg close to Þrasvík, the modern Freswick.
It was on gairsay that he built himself a house, the drinking hall of which was so long that it could contain eighty retainers.
After Hoy it is the hilliest of all the islands, and its dark upland moors are seen over the green fields of Gairsay and Weir, as the voyager enters Kirkwall Bay.
oaks.nvg.org /an6ra16.html   (17139 words)

  
 Greyhound Stamps
It is known as "The Nature Island of the Caribbean" due to its spectacular, lush, and varied flora and fauna, which are protected by an extensive natural park system.
This stamp is from Scotland (the island of Gairsay) I have been told that there are at least three sparcely inhabited islands off the coast of Great Britain that issue stamps for income production.
Gairsay, Staffa and Pabay are some of those islands.
www.animalstamps.com /grey.htm   (4641 words)

  
 142-143, A new chorographic description of the Orkneys - Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After Viera, three miles to the north east (13), lies the island of Gairsay, with holms, but one larger (called in the vernacular ‘the Hen of Gairsay’), rising into a very high pyramidal mountain, and abundant in the same commodities as Rousay.
From Gairsay three miles to the north is Eglisa (in the vernacular Egilsay), about two miles long and a mile wide, fruitful, but lacking peat; what it uses is brought from Rousay by boat, over a sea very rough because of the tide.
Here there is a church with a very high tower rising to a point, where there is a story that St Magnus, tutelary saint of the Orkneys, is buried; and a house not far from the church, very charming.
www.nls.uk /maps/early/blaeu/987.html   (1567 words)

  
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 Find Glazing Firms in Gairsay UK - Double Glazing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 Bellavista bed and breakfast Orkney
Bellavista is a no smoking bed and breakfast with lovely light rooms and a wonderful quiet location, about twenty minutes walk from Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney.
The sea is a mere fifty metres from the front door with stunning views across Kirkwall bay to Rousay, Gairsay and Wyre.
There are a number of nice walks in the area including the shore hugging route to Kirkwall.
home.freeuk.com /bellavista   (170 words)

  
 GAIRSAY; Information about Gairsay in Orkney, Scotland
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