Firth

Map of Firth

FINSTOWN, on the main Kirkwall to Stromness road, is Orkney's third largest settlement. It was formerly called “Toon o’Firth”, but the name became “Phinstoon” after an Irish soldier named David Phin, who first arrived in Orkney in 1811 when he was transferred to the 9th Royal Veteran Battalion. Phin married a Kirkwall girl in 1813 and in 1820 he made an agreement with John Miller of Millquoy to open an ale house which was called the "Toddy Hole", now the Pomona Inn. In 1824 the two fell out and Phin went to Aberdeen but the name stuck despite the short time the Phins stayed in Finstown.

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