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5 unusual facts about Clan Mackay


Bettyhill

The Strathnaver Museum, probably better known as "The Mackay Museum", has an upstairs, older & larger section devoted to the ancient Clan Mackay.

Reay

In 1437, the MacKays defeated the men of Caithness at Sandside Bay in the battle known as the Sandside Chase, turning there on the pursuers that had chased them away from an attempted raid.

Skerray

Skerray is the main village in 'Mackay Country', historically attributed to Clan Mackay.

Tarbat Ness

Further down the peninsula near the village of Portmahomack, in the 1480s the Clan Ross slaughtered a raiding party from the Clan Mackay by locking them in the Tarbat Old Church and setting fire to it.

Tarbat Ness Lighthouse

Further down the peninsula at Portmahomack, in the 1480s the Clan Ross slaughtered a raiding party from the Clan Mackay by locking them in the Tarbat Old Church and setting fire to it.


Sir Hector Munro, 1st Baronet

He married Mary Mackay, daughter of Hugh Mackay of Farr, Sutherland, chief of the Clan Mackay.


see also

Angus Du Mackay, 7th of Strathnaver

In about the year 1406 a feud arose between the Clan Mackay and the Clan MacLeod of Lewis (and Assynt).

Clan Sutherland

The Battle of Drumnacoub was fought in 1431 where Angus Du Mackay, chief of Clan Mackay defeated Angus Murray and the Sutherlanders on the slopes of the mountain Ben Loyal near Tongue.