Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren Yes HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess Yes Activities <p>Hear McNeillie&#39;s son Andrew, now a publisher, reading from his father&#39;s books in the byre, listen to local folksinger Billy Martin who will also be reading book extracts in the local dialect.&nbsp; </p><p>Please remember that this is a working farm so children should be closely supervised and dogs kept in the car or left at home.&nbsp; Please wear sensible shoes or wellies.</p> OpeningTime1 10.00-15.00 OpeningDate1 29/9/2007 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 10757 Refreshments No Parking Yes DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource North Clutag Farm Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived dumfriesandgalloway Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1106 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Description An account of the resource Today, North Clutag is an ordinatry working dairy farm, but in the 1930&#39;s it was home to an extraordinary man.&nbsp; John McNeilie, who wrote under the pen name of Ian Niall, spent his boyhood days here.&nbsp; He scandalised the local community by publishing &#39;The Wigtown Ploughman&#39;, in which he described in unflinching details the hardships of life endured by farm labourers in the early years of the 20th century.&nbsp; The book sparked calls for change and progress, but locally he was ostracised by many neighbours who were all to recognisable on the page.&nbsp; McNeillie went on to publish more thatn 40 books, including the hugely popular &#39;The Poacher&#39;s Handbook&#39;, and &#39;No Resting Place&#39;, a remarkably sympathetic book on travelling gypsies, written as it was in 1948.