Holland, North Ronaldsay
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Location: North Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland
Location: North Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland
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Holland is the largest farm on the island of North Ronaldsay and was farmed by the proprietor of the island. In 1851 it included 60 acres of arable and 60 acres of pasturage land - about 10 times the size of the average farm.
"There were originally a number of smaller crofts within Holland townland. One day five men from crofts around Holland were lost on their way home from Eday with a boat load of peats. The following days their five widows were "warned out" of their homes by the Belye and they and their children "had to find shelter where they might". One of these men was a Cutt, one a Swaney, one Tulloch and one Walls. It is little wonder that their widows put a curse on the land at Howar."[1]
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