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Evicted

On the Skye Trail we often walked through the sad ruins of villages whose depressing atmosphere made for a jarring contrast with their spectacular settings. The tenants of these villages were forcibly evicted during the Highland Clearances of the late 18th and 19th century. In these clearances landlords evicted their farming tenants to replace them with more profitable sheep. The families were often expelled with little or no notice and their houses burned so that they could not be reoccupied. That is what happened in the case of this one, Boreraig, which was cleared in 1853. Some of the families found other tenant farms, but many had to emigrate overseas, and many of those died on the way. The sheep are still there.... Boreraig, on the Skye Trail, Isle of Skye, Scotland.

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Taken on: August 16, 2023
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