Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and peopleSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and people
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
The Clan Cameron, on the other hand, consisted of four septs. These were
the _Clan Gillanfhaigh_ or Gillonie, or Camerons of Invermalie and
Strone, the _Clan Soirlie_, or Camerons of Glenevis, the _Clan Vic
Mhartain_, or MacMartins of Letterfinlay, and the Camerons of Lochiel.
The latter were the sept whose head became Captain of Clan Cameron and
adhered to the Lord of the Isles, while the three former represented the
part of the clan who seceded from him in 1429. Besides these there were
dependent septs, the chief of which were the _Clan Vic Gilveil_ or
M‘Millans, and these were believed to be of the race of Clan Chattan.
The connection between the two clans is thus apparent. Now there are
preserved genealogies of both clans in their earlier forms, written not
long after the year 1429. One is termed the ‘Genealogy of the Clan an
Toisig, that is, the Clan Gillachattan,’ and gives it in two separate
lines. The first represented the older MacIntoshes. The second is
deduced from Gillachattan Mor, the eponymus of the clan. His
great-grandson Muireach, from whom the Clan Vuireach takes its name, has
a son Domnall or Donald, called _in Caimgilla_, and this word when
aspirated would form the name Kevil or _Quhevil_.[445] The chief seat of
this branch of the clan can also be ascertained, for Alexander, Lord of
the Isles and Earl of Ross, confirms a charter granted by William, earl
of Ross, in 1338 of the lands of Dalnafert and Kinrorayth or Kinrara,
under reservation of one acre of ground near the Stychan of the town of
Dalnavert, where was situated the manor of the late Scayth, son of
Ferchard,[446] and we find a ‘_Tsead_, son of Ferquhar’ in the Genealogy
at the same period. Moreover the grandson of this Scayth was _Disiab_ or
Shaw, who thus was contemporary with the Shaw who fought in 1396. The
gravestone said to mark the grave of Shaw _Corshiacloch_, or
buck-toothed, whom tradition declares to be the Shaw who led the clan at
the combat, was, according to Shaw, still to be seen in the adjacent
church of Rothiemurchus. He is also said to have married the daughter of
Kenneth Macvuireach, ancestor of the Macpherson of Cluny, and in him and
his father-in-law we may probably recognise the ‘Kenethus Mor with his
son-in-law, leader of two thousand men,’ who were arrested by James the
First at his Parliament at Inverness in 1427.[447] With regard to the
Clan Cameron, the invariable tradition is that the head of the
MacGillonies or _MacGillaanaigh_ led the clan who fought with the Clan
Chattan during the long feud between them, and the old Genealogy terms
the Cameron’s _Clan Maelanfhaigh_, or the race of the servant of the
prophet, and deduces them from a common ancestor the _Clan Maelanfhaigh_
and the _Clan Camshron_, and as the epithet _an Caimgilla_, when
aspirated, would become _Kevil_, so the word _Fhaigh_ in its aspirated
form would be represented by the _Hay_ of the chroniclers.[448]
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