| Glenuig
is a tiny community of just over thirty folk located
in the Parish of Moidart in remote west Lochaber. Nowadays
it is taken to include the neighbouring settlements of Samalaman
and Alt Ruadh, and contains 21 houses in permanent occupation
plus four holiday homes. In a wider sense it includes the
nearby hamlets of Roshven and Lochailort, bringing the population
over a distance of eight miles to just over fifty.
Access to Glenuig by public road was only made possible in
1966, and mains electricity arrived in 1983. A growing population
of young people saw the revival of Glenuig Village Hall Committee
in 1982, running the village hall situated in the old School
Room. In 1993 the Hall Committee changed to become Glenuig
Community Association.
Our pride and joy is our village hall, one of the most splendid
on the west coast and a very popular venue for entertainment:
we regularly have traditional folk music, fiddlers, blues
bands, opera and dance and a range of community activities
ranging from yoga, playgroups and youth nights to the meeetings
of the Moidart Local History Group. We have a tiny but busy
shop and post office and a variety of accommodation choices
in Glenuig, Kinlochmoidart, Roshven and Lochailort.
Glenuig Community Association (GCA) has been responsible for
several initiatives in the area.
Through determined fundraising, notably through the Glenuig
Music Festival (1983-1993) the local community built the magnificent
Glenuig Hall that is owned and managed by the GCA, and
the Association is currently looking into the future of the
village
shop, hoping to build new premises and re-open the shop
to be run as a Community Enterprise.
The area around Glenuighas been inhabited for thousands of
years and the traces of these earlier residents are everywhere
around. The coastal regions here are wild and rocky, but because
of the warmer climate within the last two thousand years the
inland areas were productive and heavily populated.
In the last two hundred years the population declined through
enforced clearances of the glens for sheep and voluntary emigration
from the harsher coastal regions to the new colonies, particularly
Cape Breton and America.
Prior to 1966 access was by foot or horseback (from either
Lochailort or Kinlochmoidart) or by boat. Since that year
the area has been accessible by good modern roads, train or
bus.
Nowadays Glenuig is a thriving and friendly community. Occupations
include fishing, crofting, building, craftwork and IT, and
of course catering for the many visitors to the area.
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Ceilidhs
at the Hub Club
Intimate,
informal, licensed
get-togethers,
often with live music and always
with good beer and craic.
Look out for
local posters
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Moidart History
Group
Comann
Eachdraidh Mùideart
A
thriving local group meeting throughout the year in
the
Glenuig Hall, both for talks
and walks. New members
always welcome.
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