Qualla: Coigach https://qualla.com/coigach en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Coigach https://qualla.com/coigach Coigach: Introduction https://qualla.com/coigach/ In 1852 the women of Coigach disarmed twenty policemen, burned their writs of eviction, and threw their batons into the sea. The men of the township stood behind them, ready to step in if the officers laid hands on their wives or daughters, but the second line was not needed. Four weeks later six constables came back to try again. The same thing happened. The crofters of Coigach held the line for more than two years, and in the end the landlord and his factor simply gave up. In a century that broke most of the Highlands, a peninsula of a few hundred houses had refused to be cleared.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/3/coigach-wp/gfk3-coigach-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Coigach: Five Townships and a Mountain https://qualla.com/coigach/ The name itself is a number. *Cóigeach* comes from the Gaelic for *fifth* or *fifths* - a reference to the five original townships: Achduart, Achnacarinan, Acheninver, Achnahaird and Achiltibuie. The peninsula thrusts west from Wester Ross into the Minch, looking out across the S...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/3/coigach-wp/gfk3-coigach-five-townships-and-a-mountain.mp3 0:06 2 full Coigach: The Rare Victory https://qualla.com/coigach/ The 1852-1853 stand against eviction is not a polite local story. It is one of the rare Highland Clearances actions that worked. The factor's officers came with summonses, and the women of Coigach met them at the road. Twenty policemen and sheriff officers were disarmed, their su...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/3/coigach-wp/gfk3-coigach-the-rare-victory.mp3 0:06 3 full Coigach: The Cowboy Poet of Coigach https://qualla.com/coigach/ The peninsula has held on to its Gaelic literary life as fiercely as it held on to its land. Murchadh MacGilleathain - Murdo MacLean - was a native of Coigach who emigrated to the American West before the First World War, like many Gaels of his generation. Around 1910 he wrote a ...

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