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	North Ronaldsay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North Ronaldsay is the northernmost of the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
		North Ronaldsay lies around 4 kilometres north of its nearest neighbour, Sanday at Grid reference HY759542.
		North Ron has an unusual dry stane dyke that surrounds the island whose purpose is to keep the seaweed eating North Ronaldsay sheep off of the arable land.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Ronaldsay (482 words)

	North Ronaldsay History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		North Ronaldsay was the third lighthouse the Commissioners built, being preceded by Kinnaird Head and Mull of Kintyre.
		North Ronaldsay was first lit on 10 October 1789 along with Eilean Glas lighthouse.
		North Ronaldsay possessed what is still the highest land based lighthouse in the British Isles.
	www.nlb.org.uk /ourlights/history/northronaldsay.htm (668 words)

	North Ronaldsay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		North Ronaldsay is the most northerly island in Orkney, and like its more southerly neighbour Sanday, is very low lying.
		The dyke was built to keep North Ronaldsay's seaweed-eating sheep on the narrow strip of beach and foreshore and off the agricultural land.
		The North Ronaldsay lighthouse at 42.3 metres is Britain's tallest land based lighthouse.
	www.orknet.co.uk /tourism/northron.htm (248 words)

	Orkney Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The firth is 11 km wide between Brough Ness on the island of South Ronaldsay and Duncansby Head in Caithness.
		Orkney lies between 58° 41' and 59° 24' North, and 2° 22' and 3° 26' West, measures 80 km from northeast to southwest and 47 km from east to west, and covers 973 km².
		The Lower Old Red Sandstone is represented by well-bedded flagstones over most of the islands; in the south of The Mainland these are faulted against an overlying series of massive red sandstones, but a gradual passage from the flagstones to the sandstones may be followed from Westray southeastwards into Eday.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orkney (3386 words)

	Caithness CWS - History - Articles - North Ronaldsay Sheep - Index
		The exception to this generality was that pregnant ewes were brought inside the wall prior to lambing and for a period thereafter to maintain milk yield.
		Strangely it is the winter when the North Ronaldsay sheep eat best, the carcases are at their prime in December.
		North Ronaldsay is the most northerly of the Orkney Islands that lie to the north of Caithness across the Pentland Firth.
	www.caithness.org /history/articles/northronaldsaysheep2 (1229 words)

	The Papar Project : Orkney - Steeven o'Papy, North Ronaldsay, Cross and Burness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was just at this period that ‘Ronaldsay’ appears to have replaced ‘Rinansey’ and become the accepted form, as the two islands of the same name were being distinguished as ‘north’ and ‘south’ in the sources (Marwick 1952, 1).
		North Ronaldsay was the scene of the dramatic events surounding the murder of Halfdan, son of King Harald Fine Hair, in the 10th century.
		In the north eastern part of the island, at Sennes, a rectangular platform within the burial ground represents the remains of another chapel; from outside the graveyard, a ‘grave containing stone cist and skeleton’ were recovered in 1872.
	www.rcahms.gov.uk /papar/orkney3.html (1954 words)

	The Orcadian Online - A Letter from North Ronaldsay
		On July 8 a new extension to the North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory was officially opened by Jim Wallace QC MSP - an event to be reported shortly in The Orcadian.
		Fresson's plane with some North Ronaldsay folk going aboard with produce from the island – eggs, lobsters, etc., from left: Mrs Cutt of Garbo, Bella Swanney of Sanger, Mary Robertson of Holland, Annie Swanney of Trebb, Tommy Thomson of Nether Linnay and Ronnie Swannay of Trebb.
		When I was writing about Captain Fresson’s air service to the North Isles (begun in 1934), I had that it was about 20 years between the time this provision officially ceased (at the outbreak of World War Two) and its subsequent restoration by Loganair in 1967.
	www.orcadian.co.uk /features/northronaldsay/august2001.htm (2568 words)

	Island Explorations - North Ronaldsay
		Although North Ronaldsay is further north than the southern tip of Norway, its climate is far less severe, having winter temperatures which are usually some 10ºF higher than most places on this latitude.
		There is little evidence of the true origin of North Ronaldsay’s seaweed-eating sheep.
		Although there are now fewer people on North Ronaldsay, the feelings of togetherness and community are still important ingredients of island life, feelings long forgotten in many of today's urban and industrial centres.
	www.orkney.org /islands/nronaldsay.htm (298 words)

	UMass Magazine - Summer 1999 - The View from South Gravity
		OLIVER SCOTT, BROTHER OF the UMass chancellor and head of household at North Manse, the single-story stone house in which both of them were born, in the Orkney Islands off the northeast coast of Scotland, is an acerbic and ironical fellow, as given to elusive and puzzling remarks as he is to hospitality.
		North Ronaldsay has no village center, although its post-office, pub, airstrip, and school are loosely grouped toward the southern end.
		That David uses North Ronaldsay as an emblem of peaceful change "that he tells young college students about it!" was a source of passionate irritation to Ian, at least at this time of arguments over the sheep flock and sick and aging parents at home.
	www.umass.edu /umassmag/archives/1999/summer_99/summ99_southgrav.html (3201 words)

	Independent Online Edition > UK
		North Ronaldsay is remote and best known for its sheep.
		One of their most appealing characteristics - especially for those who produce North Ronaldsay knitwear - is their colour, which ranges from cream through pale grey and café au lait to chocolate brown and fl.
		An old North Ronaldsay tradition, the court dates from the 1830s, when a 6ft wall was built round the island to keep the sheep on the shore and free up grassland for cattle and domesticated sheep.
	travel.independent.co.uk /uk/article350852.ece (1183 words)

	North Ronaldsay
		Although North Ronaldsay is further north than the southern tip of Norway, its climate is far less severe, having winter temperatures which are usually some 10 deg.
		Since North Ronaldsay is the most remote of Orkney's North Isles, life is in many ways different from the other islands.
		Though only a small island with a low profile North Ronaldsay supports an extremely rich and diverse population of wild flowers, mammals and birds.
	www.visitscotland.com /library/northronaldsay?view=Standard (169 words)

	Dennishill - North Ronaldsay - Orkney Island Accommodation
		In North Ronaldsay you can have the peaceful and relaxing holiday you deserve, close to the sea and wild open spaces and away from the telephone, traffic and the pressures of everyday life.
		Dennishill can be found at the North end of the island, 2.5 miles from the airport and 3 miles from the island pier.
		North Ronaldsay is served by a weekly ferry service from Kirkwall.
	www.island-cottage.co.uk (472 words)

	North Ronaldsay Trust - Lighthouse Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		North Ronaldsay Lighthouse, the tallest land-based light in the British Isles, stands at the north end of the island.
		Its complex of buildings is to be developed by the trust to provide tourist accommodation and workshops for local industry.
		In June 2003 North Ronaldsay became the only light in Orkney with guided tours for visitors through the Trust's partnership with the Northern Lighthouse Board.
	www.orkneycommunities.co.uk /NORTHRONALDSAYTRUST/index.asp?pageid=191 (94 words)

	A Letter from North Ronaldsay - Lifeboat fundraiser
		Of interest too, were a few historic photographs taken in the 30s, which he had included, of Captain Fresson’s planes in North Ronaldsay.
		They were viewed in North Ronaldsay one night over 35 years ago before a dance in the Memorial Hall.
		Today the population of those special fine-weather sets will no doubt be like that of North Ronaldsay - somewhat depleted, since the continued exploitation of island waters by other than local boats has taken its toll.
	www.orcadian.co.uk /features/northronaldsay/jan132005.htm (2119 words)

	GENUKI: North Ronaldsay
		The Placenames of North Ronaldsay: by Hugh Marwick.
		The Registrar of births, deaths, and marriages for the island of North Ronaldsay.
		Orkney Family History Researchers are engaged in researching family histories in North Ronaldsay and all other parishes in Orkney.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/sct/OKI/NorthRonaldsay (300 words)

	The Native Sheep of North Ronaldsay
		When Gray’s Ode entitled the “Fatal Sisters,” was first published, or at least first reached that remote island, the reverend gentleman had the well-judged curiosity to read some of it to the old persons of the isle, as a poem which regarded the history of their own country.
		North Ronaldsay history starts long before the Norse settlements, so sheep has certainly been on the island long time before the Vikings went ashore.
		The very reason why the sheep-dyke – the North Ronaldsay sheep – ought to be given the same kind of considerations.
	www.sheep-isle.dk /Ronaldsay/native.htm (568 words)

	South Ronaldsay - Travelscotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		South Ronaldsay is the southernmost of the Orkney islands, only six miles from the Scottish mainland across the stormy Pentland Firth, the most dangerous stretch of water in the British Isles.
		To the north of the beach is the Howe of Hoxa, a ruined broch where Earl Thorfinn Skull-Splitter was buried in AD 963, according to the Orkneyinga saga.
		At the southeastern corner of South Ronaldsay is the recently-excavated Tomb of the Eagles, one of the most interesting archaeological sights on Orkney.
	www.travelscotland.co.uk /guide/South_Ronaldsay (900 words)

	Vision of Britain \| Groome Gazetteer entry for ORKNEY
		To the N of South Ronaldsay and separated from it by Water Sound is Burray with the smaller islands of Glimps Holm and Hunda; on the S are the Pentland Skerries, and SE is Swona.
		The sea N of Eday, between Westray and Sanday, is known as the North Sound; while along the S coast of Sanday, between that island and Stronsay, is Sanday Sound (4½ miles at narrowest point), and between Sanday and North Ronaldsay is the North Ronaldsay Firth (2 miles 3 furlongs at the narrowest part).
		The presbyteries of Kirkwall and Cairston are separately noticed; the presbytery of North Isles contains the parishes of Cross and Burness, Lady, Rousay and Egilsay, Shapinsay, Stronsay and Eday, and Westray and Papa Westray, and the quoad sacra parishes of Eday and Fara, and North Ronaldsay.
	www.visionofbritain.org.uk /descriptions/entry_page.jsp;jsessionid=83591791380FA8D941CC8FB0C7DA218B?text_id=135520&word=NULL (10373 words)

	Orkneyjar - The North Ronaldsay Stan Stane
		At Holland in North Ronaldsay, the most northerly of Orkney's islands, is a single megalith known locally as the "Stan Stane" - a dialect term simply meaning "standing stone".
		Like the famous Odin Stone in the Mainland parish of Stenness, the North Ronaldsay standing stone is perforated - the hole in this case about two metres up from the ground.
		The stone is, however, the focal point for a centuries-old North Ronaldsay New Year custom that has seen the island's inhabitants gathering around it and singing.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/monoliths/stanstane.htm (243 words)

	North Ronaldsay Trust - Home
		The North Ronaldsay Trust is a company, limited by guarantee with charitable status.
		So far, the Trust has secured the purchase of the lighthouse buildings which became vacant when the lighthouse was automated.
		Some of these buildings have already been converted to provide a workshop for a mini-mill to process the wool of the unique breed of North Ronaldsay seaweed-eating sheep.
	www.orkneycommunities.co.uk /NORTHRONALDSAYTRUST/index.asp (328 words)

	North Ronaldsay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When a Swedish East ship was wrecked off the island a great public outcry at the loss of the valuable cargo led to the proper charting of the whole coastline, and subsequently to the setting up of the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB).
		The Old Beacon at the north east tip of North Ronaldsay was one of the first four lights set up around the Scottish coast to warn shipping of hazards.
		The lighthouse dominates the low lying island, and from the top you can clearly see one of North Ronaldsay unique features – an A-listed drystone dyke that surrounds the island and retains North Ronaldsay 's unique seaweed-eating sheep on the narrow strip of beach and foreshore and off the agricultural land.
	www.initiative-at-the-edge.org.uk /north-ronaldsay.html (390 words)

	Orkney Islands Lighthouses
		The Orkney Islands lie north of the mainland of Scotland, separated from the mainland by the narrow waters of Pentland Firth.
		Helliar Holm is an island in Shapinsay Sound between Shapinsay Island and Orkney Mainland, on the north side of the Mainland.
		The keeper's houses and other light station buildings were purchased from the lighthouse board by the North Ronaldsay Trust in 2003.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/ork.htm (2283 words)

	Lighthouse Beacons From Scotland - North Ronadsay Lighthouses
		Last month we showed you a close up of the first lighthouse built on North Ronaldsay which was discontinued in 1809 and replaced with a new light which was built in 1854.
		TIn 1854 a new light was built on North Ronaldsay about 500 yards west of what would become fondly know as the "old light." David and Thomas Stevenson were the engineers for the new facility.
		Due to the low-lying nature of the North Ronaldsay the new tower was 139 feet making it Britain's tallest land based lighthouse.
	www.scottishradiance.com /light/light10.htm (198 words)

	Lighthouse Beacons From Scotland - North Ronaldsay - Old Light
		One of the first four lighthouses built by the Northern Lighthouse Board was on North Ronaldsay the most remote of Orkney's North Isles.
		North Ronaldsay was selected because along with Sanday the island had caused many shipwrecks.
		In the early 1800s the light was removed and the responsibility was transferred to Start Point on Sanday as 22 additional shipwrecks had occurred in the area after North Ronaldsay was lighted.
	www.scottishradiance.com /light/light09.htm (190 words)

	North Ronaldsay - Travelscotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Remote and storm-battered, North Ronaldsay is the most northerly of the Orkney islands and a place where old Orcadian traditions remain.
		It seems remarkable that anyone should live here at all in these extreme conditions, but 'North Ron'-as it is known locally-has been inhabited for many centuries and continues to be heavily farmed.
		The island's sheep are a hardy lot and live exclusively off the seaweed on a narrow strip of beach, outside a 13-mile stone dyke which surrounds the island.
	www.travelscotland.co.uk /guide/North_Ronaldsay (349 words)

	North Ronaldsay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The wildlife on low lying North Ronaldsay is rich and varied.
		Well known by ornithologists as a resting place for migrating birds, a number of rare species are recorded as having visited the island each year.
		Grey and Common seals, easily seen from the shore, live and breed around North Ronaldsay.
	www.escapetotheedge.co.uk /north-ronaldsay.html (107 words)

	The SOC - 'Birding North Ronaldsay' article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Most peoples first impression of North Ronaldsay is a migrants-eye view from the 'Islander' aircraft on approach to the islands airstrip.
		Perhaps strangely, North Ronaldsay missed out on the avid collectors in the early 20th century who turned their attentions instead on smaller, more remote outposts of Orkney such as Auskerry.
		The low lying iris bed 250m north of the croft (HY759555), the one bisected by a low dyke, is especially good and is one of the best places on the island for Reed Warbler - mostly in autumn.
	www.the-soc.zenwebhosting.com /north-ron-sites.htm (4676 words)

	Breeds of Livestock - North Ronaldsay Sheep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The North Ronaldsay breed is found in Orkney, Scotland.
		One of the Northern Short-tailed type, they are typically white or gray but are occasionally found in fl or brown.
		North Ronaldsay Sheep Fellowship, Peter Titley, Outlane, Waltonhurst Lane, Eccleshall, Stafford, ST21 6JS.
	www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/sheep/northronaldsay/index.htm (80 words)

	The Scotsman - Scotsman Magazine - To the lighthouse
		And of course North Ronaldsay is a real life treasure island.
		The gold on board the Svecia is still scattered among the wreckage on the seabed round the Reef Dyke, and though veteran wreck hunter Rex Cowan and a team of RAF divers battled ferocious tides and weather to find out where it had ended up, they only succeeded in bringing ashore some of the dyewood.
		Or maybe they'll claim their personal certificate saying they "ran North Ronaldsay," relax beside the community barbecue with some local hooch, and be entertained by visiting musicians.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /magazine.cfm?id=1753722005 (897 words)

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