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Clan MacRae Roll of Honour inside Eilean Donan Castle grounds, added during the restoration. The castle is regularly described as one of the most photographed monuments in Scotland, [ 49 ] [ 50 ] and is a recognised Scottish icon, frequently appearing on packaging and advertising for shortbread, whisky and other products.
Lieutenant Colonel John MacRae-Gilstrap (31 December 1861 – January 1937) was a British army officer and a senior figure of the Clan Macrae.He contested a rival claim to the chiefship of the clan, and in 1912 he purchased and subsequently restored the Macrae stronghold of Eilean Donan Castle on Loch Duich in the west of Scotland.
Clachan Duich Highland Church in ruins and burial ground of Clan Macrae Great War Highlands Monument Clan Macrae Sgùrr Fhuaran seen from Sgùrr na Ciste Dhuibhe. The Macraes are known to have been constant supporters of the Clan Mackenzie in recorded times; in 1520, and for many years onwards, they were constables of Eilean Donan Castle. [8]
Eilean Donan Castle, in 2009. At that time Kintail was held by the Mackenzies, and according to John Macrae's account, there were very few Mackenzies of the chiefly line and thus the chief of that clan welcomed the Macraes because they shared a common descent and could be relied upon.
Of the members of the Clan Matheson who supported the British Government during the Jacobite rising of 1745, it is recorded that a Kenneth Mathisom was a lieutenant in the Independent Highland Company that was formed by the town of Inverness and a John Mathison was also a lieutenant in one of the Independent Highland Companies formed by the ...
Eilean Donan, said to have been commanded by Duncan Macaulay against the Earl of Ross. Alexander Mackenzie mentioned the Wester Ross Macaulays in his 19th-century history of Clan Mackenzie. He stated that the predecessors of the Macaulays had been granted the lands of Loch Broom and Coigeach by Alexander II. [91] A.
It is supposed that the Murchisons were long governors of Eilean Donan Castle. [1] In 1563 a dispute arose between the Macraes and the MacLennans over who should hold the honorable post of constable of the castle, and the Mackenzie laird ultimately gave it to the priest John MacMhurchaidh Duhibh (Murchison). [3]
[8] [9] The chiefs of the Clan Mackenzie are said to have been settled at their great stronghold on Eilean Donan by 1297. [7] All of the earliest traditional Clan Mackenzie histories claim descent from a Fitzgerald progenitor.