Doug Shepherd's photos with the keyword: Digg

HFF 11 Oct 2019 Staffin Bay and the Inner Sound from Digg, Trotternish Peninsula - Isle of Skye

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.

The note indicates Rona lighthouse (or South Rona as it is now known as the island of North Rona off of the north of Scotland/Lewis also now has a light on it) was first lit in 1857. The station was designed by David and Thomas Stevenson. Before the lighthouse was built, a widow displayed a candle in the window of her house on Rona to guide ships away from the rocks. The lighthouse was automated in 1975.