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  2. Highland Clearances - Wikipedia

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    The definition of "clearance" (as it relates to the Highland Clearances) is debatable. The term was not in common use during much of the clearances; landowners, their factors and other estate staff tended, until the 1840s, to use the word "removal" to refer to the eviction of tenants. However, by 1843, "clearance" had become a general (and ...

  3. List of clearance settlements in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of any town, village, hamlet and settlements in Scotland, that were cleared during the 18th and 19th centuries as part of the Highland Clearances. The Clearances were a complex series of events occurring over more than a hundred years.

  4. Bernera Riot - Wikipedia

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    The Bernera Riot occurred in 1874, on the island of Great Bernera, in Scotland in response to the Highland Clearances.The use of the term 'Bernera Riot' correctly relates to the court case which exposed the maltreatment of the peasant classes in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and exposed the corruption that was inherent in the landowning class.

  5. Category:Highland Clearances - Wikipedia

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  6. Coffin ship - Wikipedia

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    Replica of the "good ship" Jeanie Johnston, which sailed during the Great Hunger when coffin ships were common. No one ever died on the Jeanie Johnston. A coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances.

  7. Crofting - Wikipedia

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    Crofting communities were a product of the Highland Clearances (though individual crofts had existed before the clearances). Previously, Highland agriculture was based on farms or bailtean, which had common grazing and arable open fields operated on the run rig system. An individual baile might have between five and ten families as tenants.

  8. Township (Scotland) - Wikipedia

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    Ruins of the township of Arichonan, forcibly cleared in 1848 as part of the Highland Clearances. Caol Scotnish can be seen in the middle distance with Loch Sween farther out. In Scotland a crofting township is a group of agricultural smallholdings (each with its own few hectares of pasture and arable land (in-bye land)) holding in common a ...

  9. Strath of Kildonan - Wikipedia

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    In 1813, during the Highland Clearances, a group of 50-60 men planned an ambush from the settlement of Suisgill in the Strath of Kildonan against a number of men who were employed by the Sutherland Estate in evicting tenants to make way for sheep farming.

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