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Date/Era 1800 |
Topic Large farms |
District Flodigarry |
Person Allan MacDonald, Flora MacDonald |
| Flodaigearaidh was broken up by 1910. The incoming tenants came from Glas pheighinn, Dìg and Brogaig. On John Campbell's croft (Nambi) - where muinntir Dhomhnaill Sheorais (Buchanans) lived, there is a ruin called tobhta ic Mhannain (the ruin of the Buchanans). Now that family of Buchanans went to Flodigearaidh. Prior to these times, in 1824, Captain James Macdonald held Flodaigearaidh. And further back - in 1750 - Flòdaigearaidh farm was managed by Allan Macdonald - Ailean nam mile mart (Allan of the thousand cattle) and his wife Flora Macdonald. Flora - who was known as Floraidh nic Raonuill Aonghais in her own Clanranald country - spent the first ten years of her married life at Flòdaigearaidh, until Allan inherited Cinnseaborg in 1760. When she died at Peinduin in 1790, Flora was buried at Kilmuir cemetery in one of the sheets on which Prince Charlie had slept during his night at Kingsburgh House. She left a lock of Charlie's hair and a buckle of his shoe to her children after she died. Bonnie Prince Charlie is not content merely to limit his links to Trotternish. Before he ever stepped foot here, he spent a night in the family home of Jane Ross (nee Macmillan) at Borodale house in Arisaig. Jane is married to Angus Ross of Elisiadar, but Bonnie Prince Charlie has this idiosyncracy - he crops up anywhere, everywhere and where you least expect him. | |