14 Facts About Highland clearances

Highland clearances adds that it can apply to both large and small evictions, and includes voluntary or forced removal and instances involving either emigration or resettlement nearby.

Some earliest Highland clearances had been to introduce large-scale cattle production.

Some later Highland clearances replaced agriculture with sporting estates stocked with deer.

Some of those carrying out Highland clearances believed that this was for the benefit of those affected.

Many Highland clearances landlords were in debt, despite rising commodity prices and the associated farm incomes which allowed higher rents to be charged.

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The low productivity of Highland clearances lands made this a financial trap for their owners.

Over two-thirds of Highland clearances estates had changed hands in this way by the end of the 1850s.

Two of the best documented Highland clearances are those from the land of the Duchess of Sutherland, carried out by, among other people, her factor Patrick Sellar, and the Glencalvie Highland clearances which were witnessed and documented by a London Times reporter.

Highland clearances was therefore well placed to cause trouble for the estate.

Highland clearances categorically challenged the basic premise of the clearance: that the people from an inland region could make a living on their new coastal crofts.

The Transatlantic Emigration Society provided a focus for resistance to the Highland clearances planned in 1820, holding large meetings and conducting extensive correspondence with newspapers about the situation of Sutherland tenants.

Highland clearances abandoned his disbanded regiment; its Catholic chaplain, Alexander Macdonell led the men and their families to settle in Glengarry County, eastern Ontario, Canada.

The effects of the clearances were evoked in fictional works by authors including Neil M Gunn and Fionn MacColla in the 1930s and 1940s.

In particular, popular remembrance of the Highland clearances is sometimes intertwined with the comparatively short-lived reprisals that followed the failed Jacobite rebellion of 1745.