Tiree
Overview
Tiree is known for the 1st century BC Dùn Mòr broch
, for the prehistoric carved Ringing Stone and for the birds of the Ceann a' Mhara headland.
Writing in 1549, Donald Munro
, High Dean of the Isles wrote of "Thiridh" that it was: "ane mane laich fertile fruitful cuntrie... All inhabite and manurit with twa paroche kirkis in it, ane fresh water loch with an auld castell. Na cuntrie may be mair fertile of corn and very gude for wild fowls and for fishe, with ane gude heavin for heiland galayis".
In 1770, half of the island was held by fourteen farmers who had drained land for hay and pasture.
Broch
A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure of a type found only in Scotland. Brochs include some of the most sophisticated examples of drystone architecture ever created, and belong to the classification "complex Atlantic Roundhouse" devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s....
, for the prehistoric carved Ringing Stone and for the birds of the Ceann a' Mhara headland.
Writing in 1549, Donald Munro
Donald Monro (Dean)
Donald Monro was a Scottish clergyman, who wrote an early and historically valuable description of the Hebrides and other Scottish islands and enjoyed the honorific title of “Dean of the Isles”.-Origins:...
, High Dean of the Isles wrote of "Thiridh" that it was: "ane mane laich fertile fruitful cuntrie... All inhabite and manurit with twa paroche kirkis in it, ane fresh water loch with an auld castell. Na cuntrie may be mair fertile of corn and very gude for wild fowls and for fishe, with ane gude heavin for heiland galayis".
In 1770, half of the island was held by fourteen farmers who had drained land for hay and pasture.
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