Brough of Birsay

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Brough of Birsay as Chapel (12th Century), Settlement (12th Century). 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.

The Brough of Birsay is associated with St. Nectan, a 6th-century Irish monk who is said to have founded a hermitage on the island. Local tradition holds that the saint performed miracles and that the site was a place of pilgrimage, though specific cures or rituals linked to the island are not well documented.