Community of Digg and the Quiraing - Isle of Skye (HFF everyone)

HFF 1/11/2019

The crofting community of Digg is one of several such communities situated on the Quiriang in the Staffin area of the Trotternish peninsula.

A croft is a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon. A crofter is one who has tenure and use of the land, typically as a tenant farmer, especially in rural areas. The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 gives crofters the right to buy their land.

The word croft (Scottish Gaelic - croit) is West Germanic in etymology and is now most familiar in Scotland, most crofts being in the Highlands and Islands area.

The Quiraing (in Gaelic: 'Cuith-Raing') is a landslip on the eastern face of Meall na Suiramach, the northernmost summit of the Trotternish on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The whole of the Trotternish Ridge escarpment was formed by a great series of landslips; the Quiraing is the only part of the slip still moving, the road at its base, near Flodigarry, requires repairs each year.