Làrach Taigh Mhic Dhòmhnaill

Dòmhnall Gorm Shlèite (Blue Donald of Sleat), laid siege to the Macrae stronghold of Eilean Donan Castle in 1539. Despite commanding a large force, Dòmhnall Gorm was wounded by an arrow to the ankle. In some versions the arrow was shot in a joint effort between a blind man and his young son. Seeing that he was losing blood at an alarming rate, Dòmhnall Gorm’s followers quickly took him away by boat to a hut on a rocky island. This island is known to this day as Làrach Taigh Mhic Dhòmhnaill ‘the site of the house of MacDonald’.

Told by an unknown storyteller

Unknown contributor; Calum MacLean (fieldworker); ref.SA1955.166, School of Scottish Studies Archives, University of Edinburgh.

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