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South Ronaldsay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (181 words) |
 | South Ronaldsay is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland. |
| South Ronaldsay's main village is St Margaret's Hope, named after Margaret of Norway who died there. |
| The village has a small museum and is known for its annual Boys' Ploughing Match. |
| The Papar Project : Orkney - Paplay, South Ronaldsay (1773 words) |
| South Ronaldsay is described as ‘fertile in Corns and abounding with People’ in the late seventeenth century (Wallace 1693, 7); Papley, itself, consists of lime rich farmland (Lamb 1995, 17), reflected in the name Lime Banks, shown on the First edition map for the area to the north of St. Peter’s Church and Manse Bay. |
| The parson of the united cure of all three churches was named as a canon of the cathedral in 1488 and it is possible that the parsonage was one of the original prebends of the cathedral, although it is not referred to in Bishop Reid’s reconstitution of the bishopric in 1544 (Cowan 1967, 186). |
| In this reconstitution, the vicarage of Ronaldsay was assigned to the provost of Orkney, along with the maintenance of the church of Barwick and the prebend of the Holy Trinity (ibid.; Cowan equates the church of Barwick with Burray, but it seems as likely to be the Lady Kirk at Burwick). |
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