Tour Scotland Video Photographs Smirisary near Glenuig Moidart

Tour Scotland video of photographs of Smirisary near Glenuig, Moidart, Scotland. This was a Scottish crofting village until its abandonment after the second world war. The area has been inhabited for thousands of years and the traces of these earlier residents are everywhere around. The coastal regions here are wild and rocky, but because of the warmer climate within the last two thousand years the inland areas were productive and heavily populated. In the last two hundred years, the population declined through enforced clearances of the glens for sheep and voluntary emigration from the harsher coastal regions to the new colonies, particularly Cape Breton, Canada, and America.

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