Clearances still take place--during our last visit to Croik Kirk my late wife and I got speaking to the wife of the nearest farmer to that monument. She informed us that they were having to leave the farm at the November Term and that her husbands family had farmed the farm for over a hundred years--it seems that a consortium composed of southern politicians and sportspeople had purchased the estate and that a renewal of their lease had been refused.It was her understanding that the new owners would be planting trees.
During my next visit to relatives in that airt I must pay another visit to Croik Kirk and check the changes to the landscape for myself.

Another place where a complete clearance of the indigenous people has taken place within the past 25 years was the estate of Balnagowan in Easter Ross. The first action Al Fyad took when he purchased that property was the removal of twenty-two families, some whose ancestors had resided there for generations.