What is recorded here
Mairi's bakery still stands beside the memorial, its bread warm at dawn while men march past the stone. The island kept both truths at once: love in bread, loss in stone. Mairi baked for the living and remembered the dead in the same kitchen.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castletown, Main Street, War Memorial as War Memorial (20th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
Places near here
Olrig Parish War MemorialMemorial · 11 yd
Castletown, Main Street, Free Church and HallChurch (mid 20th Century), Meeting Hall (early 20th Century) - (mid 20th Century), School (mid 19th Century) - (late 19th Century) · 129 yd
CastletownRopewalk (18th Century), Ropewalk (19th Century) · 283 yd
Castlehill Heritage CentreMuseum · 728 yd
CastlehillBroch (iron Age)(possible), Inhumation (viking) · 874 yd
GarthEnclosure (period Unassigned) · 1042 yd
Olrig CemeteryCemetery (period Unassigned) · 1183 yd
Dunnet BeachBeach / strand · 1.4 mi
Thurso CastleCastle (17th Century) · 4.3 mi
Britannia: Thurso Bay, Pentland FirthSchooner (19th Century) · 5.2 mi
Jonge Thomas: Easter Head, Dunnet Head, Pentland FirthCraft (18th Century) · 5.4 mi
Easter HeadHeadland · 5.5 miOther information
Photo: JThomas · CC BY-SA 2.0