Eilean Fladday


Eilean Fladday is a previously populated, tidal island off Raasay, near the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

Geography

Eilean Fladday lies off the north west coast of Raasay, across Caol Fladday, which dries at half-tide.
Once a thriving crofting community, the island now only has three cottages which are used by the families who own them for about seven months a year The population is recorded as 29, 51, 12 and 12. Five families lived there in the late 1920s. Their petition to Inverness County Council to build a road and footbridge was rejected. A subsequent appeal to the Education Department to provide a school, was successful only after a rate strike. Raasay crofter, Calum MacLeod constructed a track from Torran to Fladda between 1949 and 1952. This did not stem the exodus from the island and the last families left Fladda in 1965.