I wrote 5 Highland Clearance songs in 1966, 4 years before the excellent Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil. They were recorded and I know Joe McGrath borrowed the LP from a mutual friend.

The Shores of Sutherland
Smile in your Sleep
The Fire Raisers
Henny Munroe
The Laird's Prayer.

I read the book Gloomy Memories by Donald McLeod which was originally published as a series of letters. His title was in answer to Harriet Beecher Stowe's book "Sunny Memories", written after her visit to Scotlamd where she stayed with the Duchess of Sutherland. Some of the post above are correct in pointing out the perpetrators who drove and burnt some of people out were Scottish.