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@Rena, Haldane's "The Drove Roads of Scotland" covers that stuff, you might get it online. The coming of the railways put an end to the droving. Shepherds who faced redundancy around the 1880's either became keepers or emigrated. Ironically, the guys down-under who produced the cheap lamb which undercut Highland producers were descendants of the people who were cleared from the glens to make way for sheep in the first place.
Skoosh.
You're a fount of knowledge Skoosh!
All I found was that there's ample online information about Welsh Drove Roads from east Anglia, through Herefordshire, etc., that supplied the men working in the iron and steel industry in Wales but not much else.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke