Deerness is a quoad sacra parish and peninsula in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It is about 13.5 kilometres (8.4 mi) south east of Kirkwall. Deerness forms a part of the civil parish of St. Andrews and Deerness. There is a shop/post office and a community centre and the Deerness Distillery.
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.
The Mainland, also known as Hrossey and Pomona, is the main island of Orkney, Scotland. Both of Orkney's burghs, Kirkwall and Stromness, lie on the island, which is also the heart of Orkney's ferry and air connections.
Stromness is the second largest settlement on Mainland, and Orkney in general.
St Magnus Cathedral, built from the Old Red Sandstone prevalent on the island
Skara Brae
Mainland, as "Pomona" from the not wholly accurate Carta Marina of 1539.