Glenuig

The area has been inhabited for thousands of years, and traces of these earlier residents are everywhere around. The coastal regions here are wild and rocky, but because of the warmer climate within the last two thousand years the inland areas were productive and heavily populated. In the last two hundred years, the population declined through enforced clearances of the glens for sheep and voluntary emigration from the harsher coastal regions to the new colonies, particularly Cape Breton and America. From 1783 to 1803, Samalaman House, on the outskirts of Glenuig, was the location of a seminary for the underground Catholic Church in Scotland. Prior to 1966, access was by foot or horseback…