Weir or Viera, a triangular island of Rousay parish, Orkney, separated from the SE side of Rousay island by Weir Sound, which is 4½ furlongs to 1 mile broad, and approaching at its western apex to within 1½ mile of Pomona. Its length, from ENE to WSW, is 21/8 miles; its utmost breadth is 7½ furlongs; and its surface is low, its soil very fertile. There are on it the ruins of a church and vestiges of a fortification. Pop. (1831) 93, (1851) 62, (1871) 78, (1881) 80.
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