A history of the Scottish Highlands, Highland clans and Highland regiments . ers, carry, and have alwayscarried, such a galley in their armorial families of Macdonald descent do notbear it; and indeed, at most, it simply provesa common coast origin, or an early locationby the western lochs and lakes. CHAPTER III. The Macdougalls—Bruces adventures with the Mac-dougalls of Lorn—The Brooch of Lorn—The Stewartsacquire Lorn—Macdougalls of Iiaray, Gallanach,and Scraba—Macalisters— Siol Gillevray—Macneills—Partly of Norse descent—Two branches of Barraand Gigha—Sea exploits of the former—
A history of the Scottish Highlands, Highland clans and Highland regiments . ers, carry, and have alwayscarried, such a galley in their armorial families of Macdonald descent do notbear it; and indeed, at most, it simply provesa common coast origin, or an early locationby the western lochs and lakes. CHAPTER III. The Macdougalls—Bruces adventures with the Mac-dougalls of Lorn—The Brooch of Lorn—The Stewartsacquire Lorn—Macdougalls of Iiaray, Gallanach,and Scraba—Macalisters— Siol Gillevray—Macneills—Partly of Norse descent—Two branches of Barraand Gigha—Sea exploits of the former—Ruari theTurbulents two families—Gigha Macneills—Mac-neills of Gullochallie, Carskeay, and Tirfergus—The chiefship—Macneills of Colonsay—Maclauch-lans—Kindred to the Lamonds and MacEwens ofOtter—Present representative—Castle Lachlan—Force of the clan—Cadets—MacEwens—MacdougallCampbells of Craignish—Policy of Argyll Camp-bells—Lamonds—Massacred by the Campbells—The laird of Lamond and MacGregor of Glenstrae. Badge.—Cypress; according to others, Bell Heath. The next clan that demands our notice is thatof the Macdougalls, Macdugalls, Macdovals,Macdowalls, for in all these ways is the namespelled. The clan derives its descent from Dugall, who was the eldest son of Somerled,the common ancestor of the clan Donald;and it has hitherto been supposed, that Alex-ander de Ergadia, the undoubted ancestor ofthe clan Dugall, who first appears in the year1284, was the son of Ewen de Ergadia, whofigured so prominently at the period of thecession of the Isles. This opinion, however,Mr Skene conceives to be erroneous; first,because Ewen would seem to have died with-out leaving male issue ; and, secondly, becauseit is contradicted by the manuscript of 1450,which states that the clan Dugall, as well asthe clan Eory and the clan Donald, sprungnot from Ewen, but from Ranald, the son ofSomerled, through his son Dugall, from whomindee
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