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Much of the history of the Macdonalds of Sleat comes from traditional family histories, and it is often difficult, if not impossible, to tell fact from fiction. [8] The clan histories relevant to the Macdonalds of Sleat were composed by the shanachies (historians or story tellers) MacVuirich – the Clanranald shenachie – and Hugh Macdonald – the Sleat shenachie.
Sir Donald Macdonald, 4th Baronet (1650 – March 1718) was a Scottish Jacobite soldier and Chief of Clan Macdonald of Sleat. [1] He was known as Dòmhnall a' Chogaidh ("Donald of the War") and, after 1716, as Lord Sleat in Jacobite circles.
Escutcheon of the Macdonald baronets of Sleat [1] The Macdonald baronetcy, later Bosville Macdonald Baronetcy, of Sleat (also Slate) in the Isle of Skye, County of Inverness, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 14 July 1625 for Donald Macdonald. [2] The 9th baronet was created Baron Macdonald in 1776. The title holder as of 2025 ...
The Sleat History, [1] also known as the History of the MacDonalds, [2] is a seventeenth-century historical source documenting the history of Clan Donald. The history is preserved in one manuscript, NLS Advocates' MS 73.1.12. The work appears to date to c. 1660 /1678× [clarification needed] 85. A transcription of the text was published in 1914 ...
Donald Gallach's son, Alexander, took the names of Hugh to Ireland, in 1565, to fight for his first cousin, Sorley Boy McDonnell, leader of Clan Donald South. Hugh's Sleat land remained in the hands of his descendants the MacDonalds of Sleat until 1971, approximately 522 years. The Clan Donald Center on Skye still stands on Sleat land.
He was the son of Janet, commonly called "fair Janet," second daughter of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord Mackenzie of Kintail and Sir Donald Gorme Macdonald, 8th Laird of Sleat. James Mor Macdonald joined the Marquis of Montrose in 1645, and when Charles II of Scotland marched into England in 1651. He died on 8 December 1678.
Sir Donald Gorme Macdonald, 8th Laird of Sleat, and 1st Baronet (died 1643) was a Scottish laird. He had succeeded his uncle, Donald Gorme Mor Macdonald, 7th Laird of Sleat, who died, in 1616, without heirs. He was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia, by King Charles I, with a special clause of precedency placing him second of that order in ...
It is the home of the clan MacDonald of Sleat. The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic Slèite, which in turn comes from Old Norse sléttr (smooth, even), [1] which well describes Sleat when considered in the surrounding context of the mainland, Skye and Rùm mountains that dominate the horizon all about Sleat.