Michael Viney: Herding the history of Ireland’s native sheep

The Orkney island of North Ronaldsay is famous for the way it keeps its sheep. A stone wall circles its shoreline and the sheep are kept outside it to feed on seaweed, on which they have happily subsisted for centuries.

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Michael Viney: Herding the history of Ireland’s native sheep

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