Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Rousay, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Rousay in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Egilshay	island	Bartholomew
Rousay	island	Bartholomew
Viera (or Wire)	island	Bartholomew
Wasbister	hamlet	Bartholomew
Wire	island	Bartholomew

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Rousay like this:

Rousay and Egilshay, par., Orkney, 13,754 ac., pop. 1118; comprises the islands of Rousay, Egilshay, and Wire.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Rousay by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Rousay	0	2
Egilsay	0	2
Eynhallow	0	3
Evie	0	3
Gairsay	0	2
Eday	0	2
Shapinsay	0	2
Westray	0	3
Firth	0	2
Mainland	0	2
Carrick	0	2
Birsay	0	3
Finstown	0	2
Pierowall	0	1
Ladykirk	0	2
Kirkwall	1	4
Sandwick	0	2
Stenness	0	2
Ladykirk	0	2
Papa Westray	0	2