Open to visitorsa Historic Environment Scotland site — many are free to wander; staffed ones charge and keep set hours
Substantial ruinsruined, but plenty survives above ground
Getting there is the hard part. Nobody has lived on Eynhallow since 1851, and the only way over is a private boat from Rousay or Orkney Mainland, though the Orkney Heritage Society usually runs a trip each July. Waiting at the end of it is a roofless 12th-century church that spent centuries chopped up and lived in as cottages — the walls were recognised for what they were only when the thatch came off after a fever outbreak cleared the island. It may have been monastic; the evidence is the place name and little else. Historic Environment Scotland currently has the site closed for conservation work.
