Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'St Kilda' has mentioned 'Sheep' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Two different early sheep types have survived on these remote islands, the Soay, a Neolithic type, and the Boreray, an Iron Age type. | WIKI |
| Next in size are Soay (English: "sheep island") at 99 hectares (240 acres) and Boreray ('the fortified isle'), which measures 86 hectares (210 acres). | WIKI |
| Coll MacDonald of Colonsay raided Hirta in 1615, removing 30 sheep and a quantity of barley. | WIKI |
| The islanders kept sheep and a few cattle and were able to grow a limited amount of food crops such as barley and potatoes on the better-drained land in Village Bay; in many ways the islands can be seen as a large mixed farm. | WIKI |
| Samuel Johnson reported that in the 18th century sheep's milk was made "into small cheeses" by the St Kildans. | WIKI |
| [67] An excavation of the Taigh an t-Sithiche (the "house of the faeries" xe2x80x93 see below) in 1877 by Sands unearthed the remains of gannet, sheep, cattle and limpets amidst various stone tools. | WIKI |
| [88] All the cattle and sheep were taken off the island two days before the evacuation by the tourist boat, Dunara Castle, for sale on the mainland. | WIKI |
| Tobar Childa itself is supplied by two springs that lie just outside the Head Wall that was constructed around the Village to prevent sheep and cattle gaining access to the cultivated areas within its boundary. | WIKI |
| [135] The only "habitation" is Sean Taigh (old house), a natural cavern sometimes used as a shelter by the St Kildans when they were tending the sheep or catching birds. | WIKI |
| On the inaccessible island of Soay are sheep of a unique type, which lived as feral animals and belonged to the owner of the islands, not to the islanders. | WIKI |
| These Soay sheep are believed to be remnants of the earliest sheep kept in Europe in the Neolithic Era, and are small, short-tailed, usually brown with white bellies, and have naturally moulting fleeces. | WIKI |
| About 200 Soay sheep remain on Soay itself, and soon after the evacuation a second feral population of them was established on Hirta, which at that time had no sheep; these now number between 600 and 1,700. | WIKI |
| [155] On Hirta and Soay, the sheep prefer the Plantago pastures, which grow well in locations exposed to sea spray and include red fescue (Festuca rubra), sea plantain (Plantago maritima) and sea pink (Armeria maritima). | WIKI |
| The St Kildans kept up to 2,000 of a different type of sheep on the islands of Hirta and Boreray. | WIKI |
| These were a Hebridean variety of the Scottish Dunface, a primitive sheep probably similar to those kept throughout Britain during the Iron Age. | WIKI |
| During the evacuation, all the islanders' sheep were removed from Hirta, but those on Boreray were left to become feral. | WIKI |
| These sheep are now regarded as a breed in their own right, the Boreray. | WIKI |
| The Boreray is one of the rarest British sheep and is one of the few remaining descendants of the Dunface (although some Scottish Blackface blood was introduced in the nineteenth century). | WIKI |
| The feral Soay sheep, so much a feature of the landscape, represent an ancient breed, descendents of the most primitive domestic sheep found in Europe. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (v): The cultural landscape of St Kilda is an outstanding example of land use resulting from a type of subsistence economy based on the products of birds, cultivating land and keeping sheep. | UNESCO |