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From: "donald macphee" <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY-L] Clan Maclean Cairn
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:30:47 -0000

I was interested in your item re the Sir Lachlan MacLean memorial on Traigh
Gruineart. As you may know, the battle there in 1598 has also been of
interest to MacDuffies/MacPhees. One of the persistent stories passed down
in oral tradition (best told in modern times by Norman Newton) has Lachlan
slain by the Dubh Sith, whose father was a Shaw from Jura and his mother a
fairy woman. Lachlan had with disdain refused Dubh Sith's offer of help, so
he offered himself to MacDonald side. Newton concludes that Dubh Sith
actually "was probably a MacDuffie (MacPhee) with a physical deformity."
This memorial reminds me a bit of the "restoration" of the standing stone on
Colonsay where Colkitto's Clan Donald men executed Malcolm Macfie a few
years later in 1623. The search for "notable kin" goes on! Donald MacPhee

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From: nancythomson <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 5:55 PM
Subject: [SCT-ISLAY-L] Clan Maclean Cairn

>I found this notice in the Mar/Apr 1999 issue of "The Highlander"
>magazine. May be of interest to any Macleans out there...or to Islay
>visitors:
>
>Clan Maclean Cairn Unveiled
>To mark the death of Sir Lachlan Mor Maclean of Duart 400 years ago, the
>Clan Maclean Heritage Trust unveiled a cairn at Lock Ghruinneart, on the
>Isle of Islay, the site were "the Great Maclean" was killed in a bitter
>battle with his nephew Sir James Macdonald of Knockrinsay. Sir Lachlan
>Maclean of Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, is shown next to the cairn, in a
>photo taken just after the unveiling.
>
>Nancy Thomson
>
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