What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Papa Stronsay as Font (medieval). 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 Stronsay is associated with Saint Ronan (or Ronan of Stronsay), a 6th-century Irish monk and missionary linked to the early Christianisation of Orkney. The site is traditionally connected to healing rituals and may have been a place of pilgrimage, reflecting the fusion of Christian and pre-Christian sacred traditions in northern Scotland.
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Places near here
Papa StronsayMan-made underground passage (prehistoric)(possible) · 22 yd
Papa Stronsay, PierPier (post Medieval) · 251 yd
Stronsay, Lower Whitehall, Pier and SlipwayPier (post Medieval), Slipway (post Medieval) · 687 yd
Grice NessHeadland · 1099 yd
Stronsay, Grice Ness, Cutter's TuoChambered Cairn (neolithic) · 1110 yd
StronsayIsland · 2.4 mi
Burgh Hill, Stronsay's "summit"Mountain or hill · 4.1 mi
Holms of SpurnessIslet · 4.2 mi
Cemetery at Holland FarmChurch, cross or graveyard · 4.5 mi
Bay of StoveBay · 4.7 mi
Seals on the beachBeach · 4.7 mi
HowarNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 5.8 miOther information
Photo: David Bremner · CC BY-SA 2.0