What the records say
- When
- 1846 – 1856
- Kind
- Famine
- Coordinates
- 57.12° N, 4.71° W
- Description
- major agrarian crisis in the Scottish Highlands from 1846 to 1857
- Cause
- European Potato Failure
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Highland Potato Famine
Major agrarian crisis in the Scottish Highlands from 1846 to 1857
The Highland Potato Famine was a period of 19th-century Scottish Highland history over which the agricultural communities of the Hebrides and the western Scottish Highlands saw their potato crop repeatedly devastated by potato blight.
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