| Eilean Fladday | |
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Eilean Fladday
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| Eilean Fladday shown within Scotland | |
| OS grid reference | NG587511 |
| Names | |
| Meaning of name | 'raft' or 'float' island |
| Area and summit | |
| Area | 120 hectares (0.46 sq mi)[1] |
| Area rank | 139= |
| Highest elevation | 39 metres (128 ft) |
| Population | |
| Population | 0 |
| Groupings | |
| Island group | Skye |
| Local Authority | Highland |
| References | [2][3] |
| If shown, area and population ranks are for all Scottish islands and all inhabited Scottish islands respectively. Population data is from 2001 census. | |
Eilean Fladday (also Fladda) is a previously populated, tidal island off Raasay, near Skye.
Eilean Fladday lies off the north west coast of Raasay, across Caol Fladday (Kyle Fladda), which dries at half-tide.[4]
Once a thriving crofting community, the island now only has three cottages, used as holiday lets. The population is recorded as 29 (1841), 51 (1891), 12 (1951) and 12 (1971).[5] Five families lived there in the late 1920s. Their petition to Inverness County Council to build a road and footbridge was rejected.[5] A subsequent appeal to the Education Department to provide a school, was successful only after a rate strike.[5] Raasay crofter, Calum MacLeod (who later built "Calum's Road") constructed a track from Torran to Fladda between 1949 and 1952. This did not stem the exodus from the island and the last families left Fladda in 1965.[5]
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