Dear All, As I have noted a general fallacy running through many of the supposed histories of the Clann MacAoidgh, I shall generate an abbreviated one for all. Please note that I am in the middle of a five year effort at annotating the Book of Mackay and currently have access to the papers of Dr. Ian Grimble, Historian of the Strathnaver and il Duath Mhic Aoidh (Land of the Mackays), now deceased sadly. As a blood relative, and I do not refer to political associations or military alliances, the following is historically true and verifiable: 1) Around 710 A.D., three separate tribes leave Ireland from a region known as Dalriada and land in what is now known as Argyll and the southern Hebrides. One of the tribes is known as the Cnel Lorne, the progenitors of Clann MacAoidh. The Cnel Lorne are descended from Aedh, grand-son of the Irish king Niall. 2) Around the year 1100 A.D., the Cnel Lorne move up the Great Glen (the Loch Ness divide) to the present day region of the Moray after centuries of battle with the Cnel Gabhrain. The Mac Aedh (then Gaelic spelling...) left in Argyll become a later war sept of the Clan Ranald of McDonald, later known as the Lords of the Isles.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 07:22:52 +0000
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