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People have lived in Loggie for up to 3000 years. The name 'Loggie' itself derives from
the gaelic 'Dun Lagaidh', the name of a prehistoric fort the ruins of which survive about
a mile from Torran.
For the last 200 years, the part of Loggie where Torran is situated has been known as
Blarnaleirach, 'the land between the hills and the water'.
Blarnaleirach was until very recently a busy crofting community, in which families lived
by farming small areas of land, by fishing, by serving as crew on ocean going yachts,
and by working for the Dundonnell Estate, which was the ultimate owner of the land.
The Estate has traditionally been owned by Mackenzies; the tenant crofters who lived
in Loggie were also for the most part Mackenzies, but there were also Maclennans, Macraes and Macdonalds.
In several cases the same family lived and worked in the same croft here for well over 100 years.
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