Clan MacDougall History
A Gaelic generalisation when describing the Viking invaders was by colouring, Finn Ghall for fair stranger and Dubh Ghall for a dark stranger. Dubh Ghall was the descriptive name given to the eldest son of King Somerled.
Somerled’s father-in-law was Olaf, King of man and when Somerled died in 1164 Dougall became senior King of Dalriada. Duncan MacDougall of Argyll was mentioned in records of 1244 so by this time the name had established into a clan.
Chiefs descending from Dougall built themselves the two great castles on the shores of Loch Linnhe in Lorne, Dunstaffnage and Dunollie. Also on the mainland they built Duntrune. On the islands they built Aros, Coeffin, Dunchonnel and Cairnburgh.
They also built Ardchattan Priory, burial ground of the MacDougall chiefs until 1737. It was Ewan who endorsed most of these constructions.
Ewan had chosen to keep his island possessions from his King in Norway and his properties on the mainland he tried to keep from the King of the Scots. When King Haakon of Norway arrived with a huge fleet off the coast of Oban for a planned invasion in 1263, Ewan declined to help but surrendered his islands to him. Scot Clans
Birth: 1410 in Skegirsta, Ross-shire, Scotland
Death: 1503 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland
Immediate Family: Daughter of Iain (John) Keir MacDougall, 11th. of Dunollie & Lorn and Gyllis "Egidia" Campbell
Wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 6th of Kintail
Married: before 1454 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland
Mother of Duncan Mackenzie, 1st of Hilton and Kenneth Mackenzie, 7th of Kintail
Sister of Iain MacDougall, Laird of Lorn and Alan MacDougall
Half sister of Alexander MacDougall, of Dunollie and of Lorn; Sir Archibald Douglas of Cavers, Kt.; daughter of William Douglas of Cavers and Margaret
Added by: Roderick Brown on May 1, 2007
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