Faray

A graveyard can be seen right on the edge of the west coast. The stone wall surrounding it was built with stone from the old chapel. The placename ‘Kirk Noust’ gives a clue about the chapel’s existence. The house names have been immortalised in a little rhyme:

Quoy, Cott, Doggerboat

Hammer and the Ha’

Leaquoy, Ness, Holland, Windywa’

And that’s a’

Sheep are still kept here and local farmers spend time on the island every year at lambing time.

Nowadays Faray and its Holm support the second-largest breeding colony of grey seals in the UK, where around 9% of the country’s pups are born.

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