Hardback book ‘Gaelic Scotland: The Transformation of a Culture Region’ by W. J. Withers, 1988. Covers the process of cultural change in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, particularly during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (Including policies of successive governments, the decline of the Gaelic language, and the Clearances.) Tiree mentioned pages 8, 181, 209, 214, 219, 225, 241, 285, 357, 359, 373-5 & 380.
Bound manuscript ‘A History of Port Bàn, Isle of Tiree – Croft, Croft House and Crofters’ by Alice Renton, Port Bàn, Caoles, 2016.
Innes’s Farmers’ Movement of Stock Register belonging to Alex Kennedy, Moss, covering the period 1943-1960. The Movement of Animals Order of 1925, required that all movements of livestock to and from the farm/croft had to be recorded.
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Two DVDs (part 1 and part 2) of a Channel 4 documentary ‘Edgeland’, produced in 1986, about new crofting legislation, the Crofters Commission and the future and history of crofting in the Highlands and islands. Topics include the Crofters’ War, peat cutting, mussel and salmon farming, fishing, forestry, the Cruachan Dam, the Invergordon smelter and the Outer Hebrides.
Part 1 includes footage of Tiree and interviews with local crofters Alec MacArthur, Heylipol, and Alastair MacInnes, Ruaig, and one with Peter Fairweather, the factor for Argyll Estates. With scenes of Balephetrish, hay-making, sheep shearing, a sheep sale at the old auction mart at Crossapol Farm, Balemartine, the airport, plane and fire service, Balephuil and Ruaig.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 434, 24/01/2009
Local news: winter 2008 Rural Skills update; Tiree Trust news; RSPB information; Government`s agriculture proposals; SWRI meeting news; Agricultural Show Home Industries schedule.
Scythe
Long, two-handed, wood and iron scythe for harvesting hay and cereals. From the belongings of Angus MacLean, Scarinish.
Map of Baugh Farm, 1913
Map drawn up by the Board of Agriculture in 1913 showing the proposed subdivision of part of Baugh Farm under the Land Settlement Schemes.
© National Archives of Scotland
Map showing subdivision of Greenhill Farm, 1912
Plan of Greenhill Farm drawn up by the Board of Agriculture in 1912 showing the areas to be divided into crofts and allocated as common grazings as part of the Land Settlement Schemes.
© National Archives of Scotland
Map of proposed small holdings, Hough, 1913
Map of Hough drawn-up in 1913 to show areas to be divided into small holdings and common grazings, and an enlargement of holding for John Kennedy, as part of the Land Settlement Schemes.
© National Archives of Scotland
Plan of a small holding at Hynish, 1916
Map of Hynish drawn up in 1916 to show proposed subdivision of land into crofts as part of the Land Settlement Scheme.
© National Archives of Scotland
