Deerness
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Deerness is a quoad sacra parish and peninsula in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It is about 13.5 kilometres south east of Kirkwall. Deerness forms a part of the civil parish of St Andrews and Deerness.
Brough of Deerness showing the remains of the chapel
Covenanters' monument detail
Covenanters' Memorial, Deerness. A memorial to 200 covenanters who drowned when their prison ship foundered in a storm.
Edwin Muir
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Edwin Muir CBE was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator. Born on a farm in Deerness, a parish of Orkney, Scotland, he is remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry written in plain language a
Deerness
…Deerness 'and was seen by hundreds of sightseers'. It came to be known as the Deerness Mermaid. There is also a selkie legend associated with the parish. Edwin Muir was born in Deerness in 1887…
Edwin Muir
Memorial to Edwin Muir in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney
His grave at the Church of St Cyriac and St Julitta, Swaffham Prior in Cambridgeshire