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| Jo Ben's 1529 "Descriptions of Orkney" | |
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COPINSHAW Copinshaw* is a small island and is the first seen by sailors coming to Orkney. One farmer is here. It has very high rocks towards the east; wild fowls are captured here in the sea cliff by sending down a boy by a rope; thus are they ensnared.
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