{"id":488,"date":"2014-06-05T15:51:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T15:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=488"},"modified":"2014-06-05T16:06:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T16:06:45","slug":"488","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/488\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ardnamurchan Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_489\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-orsmaigbeg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-489\" class=\"wp-image-489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-orsmaigbeg.jpg\" alt=\"The crofting township of Ormsaigbeg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-orsmaigbeg.jpg 1800w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-orsmaigbeg-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-orsmaigbeg-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crofting township of Ormsaigbeg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most of Ardnamurchan&#8217;s little villages are scattered around its coasts, and many have a very long history. \u00a0The one in this picture, Ormsaigbeg, tells some of its story through its name. \u00a0<em>Ormr<\/em> is snake in Norse, <em>vic<\/em> means bay in the same language, and the <em>beg<\/em> suffix means small in Gaelic. \u00a0Since the Vikings were in and around Ardnamurchan some 1,000 years ago, the village is a millennium old.<\/p>\n<p>Running from right to left, from the heather-clad common grazings in the hills to the coastline, are the croft lands, each strip being a separate croft. \u00a0The picture gives some idea of how pitifully small each of these little\u00a0farms is. \u00a0Created some time after about 1830, they replaced a village or &#8216;clachan&#8217; which existed in the area marked with the arrow. \u00a0In those days, the villagers lived close together and held the fields in common, and this system almost certainly went back well beyond MacIain times &#8211; read more about this in the section called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/all-entries\/maciain-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">The MacIain People<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of Ardnamurchan&#8217;s little villages are scattered around its coasts, and many have a very long history. \u00a0The one in this picture, Ormsaigbeg, tells some of its story through its name. \u00a0Ormr is snake&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}