Harray, former parish, Birsay & Harray

Grid reference

HY 295 177 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

329500 101770

Latitude

59.04089824610835

Longitude

-3.228725990577956

County

Orkney

Nearby places

Mary Kirk, eccles. Harray, Birsay & Harray (0 miles)

St Michael's Church, Harray, Birsay & Hry (1.18 miles)

St Mary's Kirk, Grimston in Harray (2.36 miles)

Stenness, parish (Orkney) (3.42 miles)

St Peter's Church, Sandwick (Orkney) (4 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (non-extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

NGR for OS Digimap 'Mary Kirk'. Note, however, that the present parish kirk was built in the nineteenth century on a site which was occupied by an earlier one, but how much earlier is not clear. It is at HY314179, marked on OS Digimap as St Michael's Church.

Relationships with other parishes

Within Birsay & Harray

Relationships with other places

Contains Mary Kirk, eccles. Harray, Birsay & Harray

Contains St Michael's Church, Harray, Birsay & Hry

Parish details

Harray part of Birsay BIX & Harray BIH

Parish TLA

HYX

Medieval diocese

Orkney

Parish notes

United with Birsay by at least 1535. See Cowan 1967 80-1 for more details