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Skye Museum of Island Life (Kilmuir)
 Skye Museum of Island Life (Kilmuir) ... highland houses.Newest Review: ... to stand upright and they look deceptively largely than they do from the outside. The roofs are lined with moss and lichen and then thatched with heather and small branches. The first thing that I noticed as soon as I stepped into The Crofthouse was that it felt surprisingly warm and cosy. There was a small peat fire burning in the middle of the floor with cooking pans hanging above it but ... more ... it was May after all, but I am reliably told that even in the winter months these houses are much warmer than the modern houses of today. Oddly there is no chimney, presumably to help keep in the heat, so there was a strong smell of peat and because the...more |
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Skye Museum of Island Life (Kilmuir): Life on Skye (1685 words)
by - written on 01/07/09 (Very useful, 88 readings)
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Even with all of today's mod cons like electricity and running water the Isle of Skye can still be quite an inhospitable place. In Gaelic it is known as Eilean Cheo (The Misty Isle) and its winters are amongst the harshest endured anywhere in the British Isles. Despite all of this humans have inhabited Skye for at least the last eight thousand years and over this period these people have adapted to cope with the environment. This way of life, which is unique to the Scottish Highlands, is known as crofting and crofting is still widely practised today. A croft is traditionally a stone built house with a small patch of land around it that was used to grow crops ... Read the complete review
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