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Stronsay, 'castle Bervy'
Building (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Stronsay, 'castle Bervy'
Classification Building (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 3347
Site Number HY62NW 7
NGR HY 649 286
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3347
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Stronsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY62NW 7 c649 286.
(Area: HY 649 286 ) The remains of a building known as 'The Castle' are said to have been cleared many years ago froma field called 'The Barfi' on the west side of the little loch adjoining St Peter's Chapel.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.
The field named "The Barfi" is centred at HY 650 284 and stretches from the shore on the N to the road on the S, otherwise no further information.
Visited by OS(RL) 15 July 1970.
The reputed site of an old house known as Castle Bervy, traditionally a beautiful building given as a dowry by a King to his daughter, and to have been occupied by a Lady Bervy. It stood about half way between Whitehall farmhouse and St Peters Kirk.
H Marwick 1927.
There is a persistent tradition of a very beautiful dowry-house about half-way between Whitehall farmhouse and St Peter's Church HY62NE4. Corrie was told of the removal many years before 1928, of a building known as 'The Castle' from a field called The Barfi, which is centred at HY 650 284.
RCAHMS 1984.
