Meet the Team
Ciaran had been taking tour groups to Orkney for years when Fiona was offered a job in Kirkwall. They relocated and started Tour Orkney as a way to share their passion for this amazing place, it's history, culture and scenery.
Ciaran grew up on a hill farm in the Highlands. His days were spent shepherding an unruly flock - not much has changed! His passions are history, storytelling and writing - he's even worked as a ghost writer for the Royal Family.
Fiona grew up in Central Scotland and trained in medicine. She is now a doctor on Orkney working in teaching and rehabilitation. She enjoys photography and art and has taken most of the photographs across our social media.
Between them they share a love for music, creativity and especially exploring Orkney.
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It's time to Tour Orkney.
PRESS FROM CIARAN'S GUIDING CAREER
National Geographic
“It’s difficult to separate mythology and history on Skye,” says tour guide Ciaran Stormonth (...) “Celtic nations have a rich heritage of storytelling,” says Stormonth. “Take fairies—they’ve been used for centuries as a way of explaining strange things that people didn’t understand, such as illnesses. True or not, it was a way of hiding the dangers of the world.”
PRESS FROM CIARAN'S GUIDING CAREER
The Times
“I am inside a sacred burial
chamber in deepest definitely darkest Argyll,
pondering the strength of its 4,000-year-old supporting walls. As our guide, Ciaran Stormonth, tells us about our forebears’ belief in the afterlife, the slab of stone above begins to make me twitchy. The scene is Kilmartin Glen, one of Europe’s most important archaeological sites.”