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 next group is connected with a _Fearchar Abraruadh_ son of _Feradach
Finn_, and therefore a brother of Fearchar Fada, but unknown to history,
and the only genealogy preserved is that of the _Clan Gillaeoin_ or
Macleans. This genealogy is given with so much minuteness up to a
certain _Sean Dubhgal Sgoinne_, or Old Dugald of Scone, and the
ecclesiastical character of the upper links are so obvious, that it is
difficult to avoid regarding it as so far trustworthy. This Dubhgal has
a son Raingce; and he has three sons—_Cuduilig_, abbot of Leasamor, that
is, lay abbot of the monastery of Lismore in Argyllshire, from whom
descended _Gillaeoin_, the eponymus of the clan; _Cuchatha_, from whom
sprang the _Clan Chonchatha_, in the district of Lennox, by whom
possibly the Colquhouns are meant; and _Cusithe_, from whom came the
_Clan Consithe_ of Fife, which has not been identified. According to the
usual calculation, old Dugald of Scone must have flourished about 1100,
and in a perambulation of the lands of Kyrknesse and Lochow, in the
district of Fortrenn, not long after that date, we find the arbiters
were Constantine earl of Fife, Magnus Judex or _Mormaer_ in Scotland,
Dufgal, son of Mocche, who was aged, just, and venerable (_senex,
justus, et venerabilis_), and Meldoinneth son of Machedath, a good and
discreet judge (_judex bonus et discretus_).[471] It can hardly be
doubted that this Dufgal senex is the _Sean Dubhgal_ of Scone of the
pedigree, but in that genealogy he is made the son not of Mocche but of
Fearchar Abraruadh, who must be placed four centuries earlier.
The next group is brought from _Domnaill Duinn_, son of _Fearadhach
Finn_, and consists of the _Clan Labhran_, or Maclarens, and the Clan
Aidh. The _Clan Labhran_ are deduced from an abbot of Achtus, by which
no doubt Achtow in Balquhidder, where this clan had its seat, is meant,
and his pedigree is deduced from Domnall Og, son of Domnall Duinn.
According to the usual computation, Domnall Oig must be placed in the
ninth century, thus contemporary with Kenneth MacAlpin, while his father
is made brother of Fearchar Fada, who died in 697. The same remark
applies to the genealogy of the clan Aidh. They cannot be identified
with any modern clan, but a Gillamithil, son of Aidh, the eponymus of
the clan, falls about the same time with Gillemychel M‘Ath, father of
Duncan, who, in 1232, excambs a davach of land in Strathardel, called
Petcarene, with the bishop of Moray for the lands of Dolays Michel in
Strathspey.[472]
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