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From: Norman Tulloch <>
Subject: Re: [ORKNEY] Walls Cemeteries
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:40:01 +0000
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Norman Tulloch wrote:
>
> David Armstrong wrote:
>> There is a small redundant Kirk building at the Osmondwall Cemetery.
>> It is so small, that it can easily be mistaken for a garden shed!
>> When I was last there in 1995 it was bare apart from a typed
>> descendency of the Moodies of Melsetter hanging on one of the
>> interior walls.
>>
>
> So presumably that must be the building in Charles Tait's picture, then?
>

The building shown in the Charles Tait picture is apparently the Moodie
Mausoleum and not a church.

http://tinyurl.com/2nmm5u

Or here:
http://www.orkneypics.com/webpage/page/page044.html

I came across another bit of information:

"Travelling through Longhope you reach Osmandwall [sic] where the Norse
conversion to Christianity took place in 995. The first church was built
here and it is here the cemetery lies, one of three in Hoy and Walls.
The others are at St Johns, a mission church in the process of being
sold, and in Hoy."
http://www.kirkweb.org/hoywallsflotta.htm#A

So it would seem that there is or perhaps was a church at Osmondwall and
I assume that's what is marked on the 1:25000 OS map. Of course, the
name Kirkhope clearly suggests the presence of a church anyway.

It would also seem that there are indeed three cemeteries on Walls and
Hoy, as we said earlier, plus the Royal Naval Cemetery at Lyness.

(I wonder how long this message will take to get through? A few minutes
or about six hours? Rootsweb seems a bit unpredictable sometimes!)



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