Tour Scotland Photograph Ruined Cottage Isle of Skye

Tour Scotland photograph of a ruined cottage on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The Highland Clearances was when ;ocal people were driven from their homes across the Highlands and Islands, and in many cases taken overseas to the “ New World. ” On Skye, as indeed in many areas of the Scottish highlands there are many ruins which used to be part of active communities which no longer exist. During the Highland Clearances, the MacDonalds were part of a plot to sell tenants into slavery to the American Colonies, the chieftains alienating themselves from the common clansmen, who then cleared them off their lands.



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