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Snippets of History |
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Date/Era 1770, 1930 |
Topic Granary of Skye |
District Trotternish |
Person Thomas Pennant, William Mackenzie |
| It is visibly evident why Skye's Sleat peninsula is known as 'the garden of Skye'. It isn't so easy to imagine the Trotternish peninsula as Skye's 'granary'. But in his journeys around our countryside in the 1770s, Thomas Pennant described Kilmuir as 'laughing with corn'. They said the ground was so good that you didn't need to labour over it. Writing in 1930, William Mackenzie said it was not a remote recollection to remember seven mills in Trotternish. But because of our rich corn growing lands, there has been a great deal of blood shed on account of Trotternish. The Macleods and Macdonalds were seldom at peace in their struggle to claim ownership of it. It is only about three hundred years ago since neighbours here killed one another over territory. | |