Show where an irving ancestor died the floors of tile hie nave aud and aisles of st magnus cathedral at kirkwall HIr Kir kwall in the were formerly with ith tombstones the oldest of 0 which seems to be dated 1583 1582 among their is one in memory of a certain william irving who must have died a violent death being out ot y ye e castel tills this good man who passeri out of his life to in september 1614 the month when the earl of caithness wit was besieging robert stewart in the castle was as doubtless an ancestor of our washington irving whose father was born tn in the island of say across the sound from Kir kirkwall kwall and emigrated to new york in I 1 iga national I 1 gengi magazine |