What is recorded here

Reidscastle on Eday, Orkney, is a post Medieval farmstead whose exact position is known to the nearest metre. It is the kind of place where stone walls and human habit still speak, even when the name sounds like a castle that never claimed to be one.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Eday, Reidscastle as Farmstead (post Medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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