Old Duirinish Church, Dunvegan.
Three new marker boards have been erected inside a stone enclosure in front of the old MacLeod Church, of St Mary’s, Duirinish, Dunvegan.
The laminated boards, which give information about the Clan, the church and the local area, were partly funded by the Clan MacLeod Heritage Trust. In addition to the plaques, a new path has been made to link up with the attractive walk across the hill to Dunvegan Castle; the stream has been bridged and a new gate added to the graveyard. In the graveyard many MacLeod families are buried and inside the church the last five MacLeod Chiefs are buried, including Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod.
Culloden Battlefield
The National Trust for Scotland has undertaken an ambitious project to return the site of the Battle of Culloden to its 1746 condition. Trees, paths and fences will be removed and the present Visitor Centre demolished. A new Visitor Centre, with a grass roof, will be built below the brow of the ridge, off the site of the battlefield, towards the River Nairn. The £8m project, for which £6m has already been raised, is to open in April 2007 as part of the
Festival of the Highlands.
The MacLeods of Raasay had a contingent at the Battle, attached to the Glengarry Regiment.
The President urged the Trust to consider the size of the battlefield and that the present layout was on far too small a scale. If Clan Societies were to provide funding for Clan Markers on the Jacobite line, then clearly the Clans would wish the markers to be roughly in the correct position.
John
MacLeod, younger of MacLeod, was a captain in Lord Loudoun’s Highland Regiment and guarded the Royal baggage on the day of the battle. He did not march up to the field until the evening after the fighting.
More information on the Culloden Battlefield project may be found on: www.culloden.org.uk
Piping Success.
Euan MacCrimmon, one of the Society’s Honorary Pipers, won the Gold Medal at the Argyllshire Gathering in August. One of the two top awards in the playing of the Great Highland Bagpipe, the winning of the Gold Medal places Euan amongst the top pipers in the world.
Euan, whose father still has a croft at Borreraig, in Skye, will be playing at The Clan MacLeod Parliament in 2006.
This is the first time that a Mac-Crimmon, whose family members were hereditary pipers to MacLeod of MacLeod, has ever won a Gold Medal at Oban or Inverness.
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