This might be of interest to you... An extract from a book published in 1914...Walks and Scrambles In the Highlands by Arthur Bagley {Claona appears as Claonadh in early maps} "....bogs continued the whole way along the shores of Loch Fada. The maps mark a house, or at least a black dot, which I supposed represented a house, " Claonadh," about a mile down the lake, and a path leading to it by the way I had come, and I had expected to see some fellow- creatures here. The path, as I have already, is no more, and when I reached Claonadh,I found only the four bare walls, and not much even of them, of what had once been a cottage. A grassy patch, a tiny oasis in the boggy desert around,was the only other sign that human life had once existed here. It was quite a disappointment to me, and imparted a melancholy tinge to my thoughts as I ate my lunch by the side of the burn, and speculated as to the former inhabitants and their fate. Had they been removed to make a deer-forest—banished,if not butchered, and to many a Highlander the former were the worse fate, to make a Sassenach holiday, to leave space for the sport of an American millionaire, or a wealthy brewer ? Are they perhaps toiling on the Canadian prairie, consumed with a bitter " Heimweh," a vain longing for the little hut on these lonely shores of Loch Fada, which they will probably never see again ?"
