kirkwall

Proper noun

The capital of the Orkney Islands.

Origin

From Norn, probably a corruption of Old Norse Kirkjuvágr.

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Of Kirkwall, in Orkney, and 340 m.
Stromness is in daily communication with Scrabster pier (Thurso), and at frequent intervals with Kirkwall by coach and also by steamer.
1592), natural son of James V., the traces of a church which is believed to have been built by Jarl Thorfinn on his return from Rome, in which the remains of St Magnus reposed until their burial in Kirkwall Cathedral, and, on the Broch of Birsay (95 ft.
KIRKWALL (Norse, Kirkjuvagr, " church bay"), a royal, municipal and police burgh, seaport and capital of the Orkney Islands, county of Orkney, Scotland.
Kirkwall has very few manufactures.

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