About

• The Soay sheep is a breed of domestic sheep from Scotland.
• It has descended from a population of feral sheep on the 250 acre island of Soay in the St. Kilda Archipelago.
• Name of these animals is derived from the island of Soay. The island of Soay is about 65 kilometers from the Western Isles of Scotland.
• The breed is one of the Northern European short-tailed sheep breeds.
• It has been called the only living example of the small, primitive sheep which inhabited the British Isles before the coming of the Norsemen and the Romans.