Tour Scotland Travel Video Sheep Isle Of Skye Inner Hebrides

Tour Scotland travel video of sheep by the coast on ancestry visit to the Isle Of Skye, inner Hebrides, Scotland. Between 1846 to 1856 the Highland Potato Famine, Scottish Gaelic: Gaiseadh a' bhuntàta, known as the potato blight caused the crops to fail in the agricultural communities of the Hebrides and the western Gàidhealtachd, Tenant farmers, known as crofters, could not pay their rent. In turn the landowners who often also owned properties in London, England, Britain, could not maintain their standard of living . Sheep farming at that time was more profitable than tenants who couldn't pay rent so tenants were evicted. This was known as the Highland Clearances. Many crofters emigrated to America, Canada and Australia. The landowners actually thought they were doing their tenants a favour in helping them emigrate to what was perceived as a better life.



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