Eynhallow Sound

Eynhallow Sound

Eynhallow Sound is a seaway lying between Mainland Orkney and the island of Rousay in the Orkney Islands, [United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger Map, Orkney Mainland, 1:50,000 scale, 2002] Scotland. The tidal indraught is "scarcely felt beyond a line joining Costa Head and the Reef of Quendale". [ "Tide Tables for the British and Irish Ports", 1863] An Iron Age broch, Gurness, has a strategic outlook over the Eynhallow Sound. [C.Michael Hogan, "Gurness", The Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnham, 02 December 2007 [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=341] ]

ee also

* Evie
* Sands of Evie

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