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Old Photograph Crofters Cottages Isle Of Barra Scotland
Old photograph of Crofters cottages on Island of Barra, Scotland. The crofting system of land tenure as practiced in the seven crofting counties of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland ever since the second half of the 18th century evolved from the earliest clan system of land tenure known as the runrig system which prevailed in the Highlands of Scotland for centuries. The seven crofting counties are, Sutherland; Caithness; Ross and Cromarty; Inverness-shire; Argyllshire; Orkney and Shetland. The Western Isles, from Lewis to Barra, used to be part of Ross and Cromarty and Inverness-shire. There are 18,000 crofts in the Highlands and Islands, 6,000 of which are in the Western Isles.
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