The main industries are tourism, agriculture, public services, construction and the creative industries. © 2020 BBC. The island is very popular with walkers, ornithologists and botanists. The population on the Isle of Eigg has been increasing since a community buy-out in 1997. There were fewer servants in 1891 but more types of them. There are now 105 people living on the Isle of Eigg, one of the Small Isles which lie south of Skye, including a baby born in January. Up Next, Are the lockdown restrictions too strict? Got a question about life on Eigg? This was probably because there were bigger families in 1841 in which a lot of people would have just been born and would be between 0 and 20 years old. Video, 00:00:57'Vote him out': Trump booed at US Supreme Court, How Australia saved 70 stranded pilot whales. The population was much bigger in 1841 than in 1891 and about five times the amount of people now! Also the amount of families was practically halved, probably for the same reason the population shrunk. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Whereas by 1891 people only lived in Howlin, Cleadale, Laig, Kildonnan, Sandaveg, Sandavore, Galmisdale and there was only a two-person family in Grulin. Roughly the average age of people on Eigg in 1841 and 1891 was 0-20. Video, 00:02:49Polio campaigners battle misinformation and distrust, Third time's a Mercury Prize for Michael Kiwanuka. We have achieved a lot and we hope to achieve even more in the years to come. The number of residents on one of Scotland's Small Isles could reach 100 during 2015. Eigg can be reached from Mallaig via the Small Isles Ferry and, seasonally, from Arisaig. Easter weekend would usually mark the start of the tourist season on Eigg, which has about 100 permanent residents, but visitors can no longer reach the … Eigg is very much a different place now. It is dominated by the 393 m (1,289 feet) peak of An Sgurr (the rocky peak), a dramatic pitchstone ridge, the largest of its kind in Europe, clearly visible and recognisable from the mainland. Video, 00:06:49, China's dilemma over wild meat trade. Eigg had a population of more than 500 during the early 1800s but, like other island communiuties, it steadily fell as landowners increasingly turned over crofts for sheep farming. Five children now attend the primary school and are among the 19 children on the island – older youngsters attend Mallaig High School, 18 miles away on the mainland. Eiggers, such as the musician Johnny Lynch, are turning to new methods of generating income as life on the island, which was already transforming before the coronavirus outbreak, changes due to the UK-wide lockdown. Also the amount of families was practically halved, probably for the same reason the population shrunk. At Rubh' An Tangaird, near the southern coast, there are the remains of an oval house, with thick walls, and an upright stone at each side of the doorway, suggestive of grandeur; comparable structures in Shetland suggest a neolithic date. Video, 00:01:38China's dilemma over wild meat trade, Polio campaigners battle misinformation and distrust. Video, 00:02:13, Up Next, Are the lockdown restrictions too strict? © 2020 BBC. Eigg certainly did change in the Victorian Era. VideoHow cyber-attacks could be deadly, 'Vote him out': Trump booed at US Supreme Court. [A big impact would have been the Potato famine of 1844-5, when the entire potato crop on which people depended for their subsistence rotted in the ground. The number of places changed, maybe because the clearances cleared out Grulin. Are the lockdown restrictions too strict? Video, 00:02:13Island's population could reach 100. Last modified on Wed 1 Jul 2020 17.46 BST. It is dominated by the 393 m (1,289 feet) peak of An Sgurr (the rocky peak), a dramatic pitchstone ridge, the largest of its kind in Europe, clearly visible and recognisable from the mainland. Eigg, at 5 miles long by 3½ miles wide, is the second largest of The Small Isles occupying the area between the Isle of Skye to the north and the Ardnamurchan peninsula to the south. Video, 00:01:43How to get and use the NHS Covid-19 app, 'Vote him out': Trump booed at US Supreme Court. “So I could imagine that it would go around quite quickly if it did come here,” added Boden. Video, 00:01:29, How Australia saved 70 stranded pilot whales, âActs of kindness can help save livesâ Video, 00:03:39, âActs of kindness can help save livesâ, 'I was accused of kidnapping my adopted son' Video, 00:02:16, 'I was accused of kidnapping my adopted son'. Some of them were smaller and only about two-five people in one. However some survived and went on to work for the Landlord or for themselves as crofters, fishermen or tradesmen. There were a lot more jobs in 1891 as new inventions and ideas were made. The jobs and amount of families also changed as new ideas and inventions were made. Read about our approach to external linking. Photograph: Dixe Wills/The Guardian Seven miles off the west … 'Vote him out': Trump booed at US Supreme Court.
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