Writer Chris Dolan on drive to breath life into ghost villages of the Highland Clearances

Duncan MacKenzie with his two dogs charts the forgotten villages

‘Slowly then suddenly, like Atlantis surfacing, I can see it. I see it all’: Writer Chris Dolan on drive to breath life into ghost villages of the Clearances

I’ve driven the Inverness to Ullapool road scores of times. Walked and cycled bits of it. I’d noticed the sign saying Inverlael. Meant nothing to me.

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