Eilean Fladday

Eilean Fladday (also Fladda; Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Fladaigh) is a previously populated tidal island off Raasay, near the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

[1] 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.

Their petition to Inverness County Council to build a road and footbridge was rejected.

[2] A subsequent appeal to the Education Department to provide a school, was successful only after a rate strike.

This did not stem the exodus from the island and the last families left Fladda in 1965.