By E. Mairi MacArthur
ISBN-10: 0585443661
ISBN-13: 9780585443669
ISBN-10: 1902930274
ISBN-13: 9781902930275
The Hebridean island of Iona has been the focal point of severe outdoors curiosity for over fourteen hundred years, from the time of St Columba's monastery within the 6th century via to the move of its popular monuments into the care of old Scotland within the 12 months 2000.Yet the folk who lived and labored along its sacred websites were principally overshadowed earlier. This e-book is the 1st to redress the stability, taking an in-depth examine Iona's monetary and social heritage through the 18th and nineteenth centuries, a interval that observed profound swap around the Highlands and Islands.It charts the rural reorganisation that resulted in a crofting procedure, follows the islanders during the harsh decade of the potato famine and documents their worship and schooling, their crafts and customs, and the binds of kinship that underpinned their neighborhood. A vast diversity of assets are woven jointly - documentary, fabric, topographical and photographic, in addition to oral testimony passed down the generations - to create a bright photo of Iona's previous.
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They make their own woollen and linen webs, and indeed I suppose everything else, except for any hardware for which they may have occasion. They have no shoes for their horses. 2 Facts and figures and fleeting impressions were jotted down, at random but in vivid, snappy style. Taken together, they capture island life at that particular moment and help put flesh on to the statistical bones of the 1779 list, barely a decade earlier. A few individuals are mentioned by name, including the minister Dugald Campbell, the schoolteacher Robert Colquhoun and farmer and innkeeper Neil MacDonald.
The journal stated that there were ‘thirty-six tenants at will not all equally’ – that is, their security depended on the will of the landlord and their share of the land varied. At Martinmas and Whitsun they went over to Mull to pay the Duke’s steward their rent, which totalled £180. They ate little meat, lived on fish (especially salt ling and cod), barley bread and made good use of milk. The island could also yield lobster and crabs and wild geese in autumn but it had no game or fresh water fish in the two lochs nor fruits of any sort.
43–4. Iona_02_Ch1 20 27/3/02, 11:43 am 2 The Age of Improvement R ent was paid from the sale of cattle and surplus grain and as a rule Iona had the capacity to meet this without undue difficulty. Boswell noted in 1773 that ‘Icolmkill pays £150 of rent. They sell about 40 cattle and more than 150 bolls of barley’. And Robert Heron stated twenty-one years later that ‘such is its fertility that it affords a considerable exportation, as well of barley and oats as of cattle’. Visitors had long remarked upon the abundance of Iona’s natural resources.