Some ‘Reall MacDougalls’: The Clan Maelanfaid alliance with Clan Dougall during 160 years of war and peace.

Join Seanchaidh Dr. Graeme Macaloney, who runs the Clan Maelanfaid FTDNA Project, to hear how the ‘Reall MacDougalls’ manuscript identifies the ancient Argyll kindred, Clan Maelanfaid, as close blood relations of Clan Dugall.  Living adjacent to each other, and probably linked by a strategic marriage,  the Maelanfaid helped Alexander MacDougall defeat Robert Bruce at the battle of Dalrigh capturing the Brooch of Lorne, bolstered John MacDougall’s army to 2,000 warriors at the fateful battle of the Pass of Brander, and were exiled with John, Ewen and Alan Gallda MacDougall in England. As a learned ecclesiastical family, the Maelanfaid were sponsored by the MacDougalls as Bishops of Argyll.