Knoydart - the northern edge of the 'Rough Bounds' is one of the
most evocative names in Scotland. This text offers a history of
Knoydart from the earliest times to the present day. A remote and
desolate peninsula, its name derives from Viking settlers who only
reckoned it worth three ouncelands - compared to five for the
island of Eigg. Its warlike but impoverished inhabitants caused
endless problems for their neighbours during the 17th century
before becoming notorious in the 18th century under the leadership
of Coll of Barrisdale. His protection racket has bequeathed the
word 'blackmail' to the English language and he was notorious
across Scotland. For the Jacobites, as well, Knoydart was a fertile
recruiting ground. In the 18th and 19th centuries the area suffered
large scale emigration, partly as a result of the brutal clearances
of 1853. A further long century of decline followed, during which
sheep and then deer were preferred to people. In 1948 discontent
swelled again and it became the scene of the famous land-raid by
the 'Seven men from Knoydart'. It has changed hands more often in
the last 150 years than in the previous 700 years. The land
continues to lie at the heart of the Knoydart problem and the book
attempts to place events in their larger historical context. This
is the struggle of a community to preserve itself against the
harshness of the environment and the cynical exploitation of man.
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