Clan MacIain of Ardnamurchan

Clan MacIain of Ardnamurchan

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History of Ardnamurchan / Photo of the Week

Bourblaige

  Bourblaige is one of the clachans cleared during the early part of the 19th century by James Riddell, owner of Ardnamurchan Estate, to make way for an extensive sheep farm.  Today, its fallen...

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Crofting

In the years of the clearances, when people were sometimes forcibly removed from the clachans in which their families had lived for generations, many left Ardnamurchan for other parts of Scotland and for places...