You are here: The Past > Produce from the Land Produce from the Land Rent was paid in barley, oats, fish, produce from their cattle, sheep, and especially seabirds. Land was divided according to the run-rig system common elsewhere in Scotland. Each tenant's plots were scattered throughout the arable area, and the plots were re-allocated annually. Agricultural reforms in the 1830's secured each tenant his own strip of land, on which he built his house.
Plucking sheep for their wool in 1927 Photograph: A.M. Cockburn	Milking ewes in Gleann Mor Photograph: Norman Heathcote