Oronsay (Scottish Gaelic: Orasaigh), also sometimes spelt and pronounced Oransay by the local community, is a small tidal island south of Colonsay in...
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SS Oronsay was the second Orient Line ship built after World War II. A sister ship to Orcades, she was named after the island of Oronsay off the west...
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This is a list of islands called Oronsay (Scottish Gaelic: Orasaigh), which provides an index for islands in Scotland with this and similar names. It...
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For other ships called SS Oronsay, see List of ships named Oronsay SS Oronsay was a British ocean liner and World War II troopship. She was sunk by an...
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Oronsay commonly refers to the island of Oronsay, Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Oronsay may also refer to Oronsay, Loch Bracadale, Skye Oronsay...
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Oronsay (Scottish Gaelic: Orasaigh) is an uninhabited tidal island in Loch Bracadale on the west coast of Skye, Scotland. It is c.1,000 metres (0.7miles)...
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list of ships named Oronsay: SS Oronsay (1887) (renamed Hainaut after 1900) 2,070 GRT steamship wrecked off Skyros in 1911 SS Oronsay (1900) 3,761 GRT cargo...
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was born on the island of Oronsay in the Inner Hebrides, the son of John McNeill (1767–1846), laird of Colonsay and Oronsay, and his wife Hester (née...
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Oronsay Priory was a monastery of canons regular on the island of Oronsay, Inner Hebrides, Argyll, off the coast of Scotland. It was in existence by 1353...
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Alison Steadman on Channel 4. The series visited Gigha, Jura, Colonsay and Oronsay in episode 1, Jersey, Alderney and Sark in episode 2 and the Isles of Scilly...
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Keeping (Colonsay and Oronsay) Order 2013". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives. Retrieved 9 November 2018. "Colonsay and Oronsay to become honeybee...
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Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks that also outcrop on the islands of Islay and Oronsay and the surrounding seabed. The sequence has been correlated with the Grampian...
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Isles Kili Holm in Orkney, joined to Egilsay Oronsay in the Inner Hebrides, joined to Colonsay Oronsay in Loch Bracadale, joined to Skye Orosay in the...
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in the south. At the estuary of Loch Teacuis lie the large islands of Oronsay, Risga and Càrna. There are numerous lochs in northern Argyll, the largest...
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Three new ships of 28,000–29,000 tons entered service: Orcades (1947), Oronsay (1951) and Orsova (1953), matching in speed and size the three new postwar...
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Rona (disambiguation) Soay (disambiguation) Muck Eigg Rùm Shuna Colonsay Oronsay Scarba Easdale Jura Islay Mull Ulva Gometra Iona Coll Tiree Lewis and Harris...
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The Prior of Oronsay was the Religious Superior of Oronsay Priory, a community of canons regular on the island of Oronsay, Inner Hebrides, off the coast...
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Oronsay is an uninhabited island in Loch Sunart, Scotland. It is low-lying, barren and rocky, deeply indented with sea lochs. The island encloses Loch...
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present around the coasts of Scotland. Colonies of seals are found on Oronsay and the Treshnish Isles. The rich freshwater streams contain brown trout...
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smallest municipality of San Marino. Sark 5.44 Island part of Guernsey. Oronsay (Colonsay) 5.43 Island part of Scotland. Navassa Island 5.4 Minor outlying...
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knife on 31 October 2009 while she was in the driveway of her home on Oronsay Road, Airdrie. It happened during a period of large-scale fighting in the...
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List of bays of the Outer Hebrides (section Oronsay)
the south-west corner of North Uist, has no bays. The tidal islands of Oronsay, located in the north coast North Uist has no bays. Map this section's...
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Once Jessie had recovered from her illness, they returned to Sydney on SS Oronsay. Jenner would normally wake up to pray at 5 am each day. In the 1940s,...
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the clan. The clan has a long history with the islands of Colonsay and Oronsay in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, and today many monuments to various lairds...
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List of bays of the Inner Hebrides (section Oronsay)
There is no bays on Càrna. There is no bays on Oldany. There is no bays on Oronsay. This island has no bays. Map this section's coordinates using OpenStreetMap...
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seabird remains have also been found in shell mounds on the island of Oronsay off the coast of Scotland. Cultures around the world have rich vocabularies...
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estimated the number to be 5,500. At 13:50, during an air-raid, the nearby Oronsay, a 20,000-ton Orient Liner, was hit on the bridge by a German bomb. Lancastria...
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Special ships HMS Derwentdale (LCA) HMS Bachaquero (LST) Troop ships SS Oronsay RMS Duchess of Atholl RMS Franconia Stores and MT ships SS Empire Kingsley...
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A carving of a birlinn from a 16th-century tombstone in MacDufie's Chapel, Oronsay, as engraved in 1772...
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