HISTORY OF BORVE

The cottage was built around a hundred years ago by the family that took on the tenancy of crofts 24 and 25 of the former sheep farm of Borve.

Fifty years earlier the tenants and crofters of the collective farms that made up the present 'Borve' were forcibly evicted from their homes and lands and shipped off to the New World by cruel landlords that preferred sheep to their fellow human beings.

The sheep farm was bought by Lachlan MacDonald of Skeabost with the intention of returning the land to the people and this was duly done at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Almost a hundred years later, the grand son Major J L MacDonald sold Borve, for a nominal sum, to the crofting tenants. Crofting, to a lesser extent maybe, is still practiced and highland cattle and sheep still graze the parks near the cottage and the hills behind it.


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