Editing Plockton (section)

==History==
Plockton was established as a planned fishing village on the northern edge of the Lochalsh, built "when introducing sheep farming in 1814-20 and removing the population from their old hamlets in Glen Garron, founded the villages of Jeantown and Plockton on Loch Carronside" (Geddes: 1945, pp38).{{full citation needed|date=June 2024}}<!--Is there a word missing from this quotation?--> 

A local laird transformed the community into a prosperous fishery, and in the process, funded the planned village. Most of the houses date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Some [[maritime chart]]s, including MacKenzie (1776) and Heather (1804), mark the peninsula where the village sits as 'Plack'; however, it is generally considered that the village was built on the 'Ploc' of Lochalsh, with 'Ploc' being understood in Gaelic as pimple or bump (of Lochalsh). This usage is shared with other places such as the Plock of Kyle and Plocrapool on the [[Isle of Harris]]. Until the end of the eighteenth century, the fishing hamlet, as it was then, was known as ''Am Ploc'' (meaning 'blunt promontory' in Gaelic).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Murphy |first=Alan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=drz9AgAAQBAJ&dq=plockton&pg=PA96 |title=Northwest Highlands of Scotland |date=March 2013 |publisher=Footprint |isbn=9781909268241 |edition=1st |location=Bath, UK |pages=96 |language=English}}</ref> The ‘-ton’ (from 'town') was added to designate it as such in the English language, following the construction of the planned village around 1800.