Papa Stour, Kirk Sand

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Papa Stour, Kirk Sand as Chapel (12th 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.

Papa Stour, Kirk Sand is associated with St. Hilda, a 7th-century abbess and saint venerated in northern Britain for her role in early Christian monasticism. The site may have been a place of pilgrimage or local worship, reflecting the spread of Christianity in the Orkney Islands.