{"id":545,"date":"2014-09-07T18:50:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T18:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=545"},"modified":"2014-09-07T18:50:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T18:50:34","slug":"reidh-dhail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/reidh-dhail\/","title":{"rendered":"Reidh-dhail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_546\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-reidhdhail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-546\" class=\"wp-image-546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-reidhdhail.jpg\" alt=\"Reidh0dhail\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-reidhdhail.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-reidhdhail-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-reidhdhail-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reidh-dhail<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Reidh-dhail is an intriguing place. \u00a0Lying to the west of Ormsaigbeg, miles from any human habitation, in summer it&#8217;s little more than a tangle of six-foot high\u00a0bracken, but the plant&#8217;s\u00a0presence is a sure sign of rich soils. \u00a0In winter, the remains of stone walls enclosing and subdividing a substantial area of land, and a few broken stone houses, indicate that this was once a thriving settlement. \u00a0The little burn\u00a0that runs away to bottom right of this picture leads to a small but sheltered\u00a0port, so the people who lived here were fishermen as well as farmers.<\/p>\n<p>There is very little known history to the place. \u00a0Local people say it was once a local shieling for summer grazing, but its name suggests it is much older, perhaps dating back to Viking times. \u00a0So there is little doubt that it was inhabited at the time of the MacIains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reidh-dhail is an intriguing place. \u00a0Lying to the west of Ormsaigbeg, miles from any human habitation, in summer it&#8217;s little more than a tangle of six-foot high\u00a0bracken, but the plant&#8217;s\u00a0presence is a sure sign&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,82],"tags":[5,6,42],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-of-ardnamurchan","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-history","tag-maciain","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}