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John Byset

John Byset the Elder, Lord of the Aird (died 1257) was a Scoto-Irish nobleman who is the progenitor of the Bissett family (anglicized McKeon/McKeown) of the Glens of Antrim in Northeast Ireland or Ulster.


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Red Bay Castle

The Bissett family were forfeited of their lands in Scotland and fled for their lives to Ireland after Walter de Bisset was accused of the murder of Patrick, Earl of Atholl, at Haddington, East Lothian in 1242.