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Tusdale, Isle of Skye There are many remains of cottages, most of them little more than grassed-over outlines or mounds of stones. A few still rise to a height of two or three feet, and the house of the tenant farmer, for whom the township was finally cleared, is by far the most substantial ruin. There are outlines of fields, and on the lower slopes of the hills around the glen the clear patterns of many lazybeds, where oats, barley, potatoes and other vegetables would have been grown. Quite obviously, this was once a well-populated place. South-facing, well-sheltered and with a wide expanse of green and fertile ground, it is easy to see why. Today only a few sheep roam among the ruins, and the nearest habitations are two miles or more away, at the inner end of Loch Eynort. Local people here say that Tusdale once had so many inhabitants that it was nick-named "the capital of Skye". |
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