Places like this make me feel a real deep sadness for what went on not so very long yet they also feed the imagination. I love hunting out inf
Places like this make me feel a real deep sadness for what went on not so very long yet they also feed the imagination. I love hunting out information on the remains though and finding out nuggets of information such as below. Once an "In the early 1800s, there were five tenants in Divach. Two of them had an equal share of the upper fields known as Achdivach (Mackay calls them 'Acha Dibheach', but lately they have simply been known as 'The Achach') ... In 1848, in Achdivach there were five inhabited houses with a population of about thirty people. Among the group were four tenants who paid rent and who were on one year in arrears. Unknown to the tenants that year, Divach had been let out as a single tenancy. In 1849, a formal summons was issued to them to remove and give peaceful possession to the new tenant, a Mr MacKay. James MacDonald, William McDougall, Alex McDougall and Duncan McDougall, the four tenants and heads of their families, sent in a petition against removal. They then took the unusual and bold step of travelling to Strathspey to present their case before His Lordship. The difficulties [they experienced] and [the] initiative shown by journeying there seem to have impressed Lord Seafield, who was pleased to express sympathy for their condition and gave permission for them to remain in their houses and gardens till 1850, by which time his Lordship expected they would be put in possession of crofts fully as good as those they were compelled to leave at Achdivach. They were therefore allowed to live in their houses with no croft, but there was little hope of being granted a tenancy equal to what they were leaving. May 1850 soon arrived, and the community departed and dispersed to adjoining parishes and, according to William McDougall, to America" The archeaological "survey" simply notes: "Footings of 5 buildings and field wall extant. Remains of 6 buildings, 5 enclosures, corn-drying kiln and disused well."
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