April 22, 2014 by Tartan Footprint
This was one of my favourite photos from our week in Skye. This is Trumpan church, the site of a terrible massacre in 1578, during wars between the MacLeods and MacDonalds. In this instance a fleet of...
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Pauline Campbell
As a McDonald, I had not heard of the massacre between the MacDonalds and MacLeods. I knew about the Campbells and MacDonalds though....and I happened to marry a Campbell, and we have fighting ever since....only joking. I think 50 years of marriage proves that wrong!!
- April 23, 2014
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Karen Mccarron Cecchetto
ok .. as a relation of a Campbell, that's kind of funny! good for you both to show, that in fact, a Scot can forget!
- April 15, 2015
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Tartan Footprint
Relatively speaking the Glencoe Massacre pales compared to the virtual extinction of MacDonald's on Rhum and Eigg or other atrocities carried by MacDonalds and MacLeods and MacDonalds and MacLeans against each other. Also what happened between the Campbells and Lamonts involved far higher loss of li...
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