1851 - Buil nam Fuadach (1851-52) – The Reality of Evictions (1851-52)

“He has been summoned out of his lot he is in arrears of rent about £2. 10/- … he owes about £10 for meal advanced to him by the proprietor; he is part of the crew on a boat engaged at the cod and ling fishing … he and his brother and their families have been offered free passage to America and will go, but would rather remain if he could find the means of subsistence here.”

^{Donald MacLean, Carnish 1851}

“Carnish, Reef and Kneep were to be cleared completely … ground officers were instructed to destroy forthwith the houses, after the emigrants had vacated them.”

^{Munro-MacKenzie 1994}