Eilean Fladday
Eilean Fladday (also Fladda; Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Fladaigh) is a previously populated tidal island off Raasay, near the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Geography
[edit]Eilean Fladday lies off the north west coast of Raasay, across Caol Fladday (Kyle Fladda), which dries at half-tide.[1]
Once a thriving crofting community, the island now only has three cottages which are used by the families who own them for about seven months a year. The population is recorded as 29 (1841), 51 (1891), 12 (1951) and 12 (1971).[2] Five families lived there in the late 1920s. Their petition to Inverness County Council to build a road and footbridge was rejected.[2] A subsequent appeal to the Education Department to provide a school, was successful only after a rate strike.[2] Raasay crofter, Calum MacLeod (who later built "Calum's Road") constructed a track from Torran to Fladda between 1949 and 1952. This did not stem the exodus from the island and the last families left Fladda in 1965.[2]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Historical Perspective of Raasay". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 11 December 2009.
- ^ a b c d Hutchinson, Roger (2006). Calum's Road. Birlinn. ISBN 1-84158-677-3.
57°29′9″N 6°1′40″W / 57.48583°N 6.02778°W
