Ardroil

Ardroil (Scottish Gaelic: Eadar Dhà Fhadhail) is a village on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

The land is made fertile from the wind blown shell sand which has fertilised the black earth for centuries.

What is today known as Ardroil is an elongated township of re-settled crofts from five previously cleared settlements.

These clearances occurred in the 1830s as the landowner, the Earl of Seaforth, decided that the best land should be taken from tenant crofters and given to sheep farmers.

This particular clearance evicted the tenants of the former healthily populated townships of Capadale (Capadal), Penny Donald (Peighinn Dhomhnaill), Balgowan (Baile Ghobhainn), Balgreasach (Baile Ghreusaich) and Erista (Earastadh).