A report on Croft (land), Highland Land League and Highland Clearances

The Shetland Crofthouse Museum, with peat stacked outside
The emblem of the Highland Land Law Reform Association
Ruined croft houses on Fuaigh Mòr in Loch Roag. The island was cleared of its inhabitants in 1841 and is now used only for grazing sheep.
The remains of old run rig strips beside Loch Eynort, Isle of Skye
The Lowland improver Lady Grisell Baillie (1665–1744) and Sheriff Donald MacLeod (1745–1834), laird of Geannies, a keen improver, the law officer involved in the 1792 Ross-shire Insurrection, and a widely respected proprietor
Ruins of the Badbea longhouses with the 1911 monument in the background
Ormaig was once the principal settlement on the Isle of Ulva near Mull. It had been inhabited since prehistoric times, until it was cleared by Francis William Clark in the mid-19th century.
Portrait by Henry Raeburn of Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry in 1812. MacDonnell claimed to support Highland culture, while simultaneously clearing his tenants.
A romanticised early Victorian depiction of a member of Clan MacAlister leaving Scotland for Canada, by R. R. McIan
The emigrants statue commemorates the flight of Highlanders during the Clearances, but it is also a testament to their accomplishments in the places they settled. Located at the foot of the Highland Mountains in Helmsdale, Scotland.

The legislation was largely a response to the complaints and demands of tenant families who were victims of the Highland Clearances.

- Croft (land)

The protests included rent strikes and land occupations (which came to be known as land raids) by crofters, cottars and squatters.

- Highland Land League

By the 1880s the common people or peasantry of the Highlands and Islands had been cleared from large areas of their ancestral lands, the clearances (known as the Highland Clearances) having occurred during the decades following the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

- Highland Land League

The Parliament of the United Kingdom created the Crofters' Act 1886, after the Highland Land League had gained seats in that parliament.

- Croft (land)

To replace this system, individual arable smallholdings or crofts were created, with shared access to common grazing.

- Highland Clearances

The Highland Land League eventually achieved land reform in the enactment of the Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886, but these could not bring economic viability and came too late, at a time when the land was already suffering from depopulation.

- Highland Clearances
The Shetland Crofthouse Museum, with peat stacked outside

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