About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Cromarty, Macaulay family of Lewis, Ross, Torridonian, Ross County F.C., Fortrose Cathedral, Earl of Cromartie, Applecross, Dingwall Canal, Loch Maree, Moray Firth, Dingwall Academy, Summer Isles, Cromarty Rose, Fyrish Monument, Black Isle, Wester Ross, Fairy Lochs, Kyle of Lochalsh, Diocese of Ross, Sand, Applecross, Ben Wyvis, Balconie Castle, Ross, Cromarty and Skye, Ormond Castle, Alness, HMS Fieldfare, Tarbat Ness Lighthouse, Alness Academy, Strathpeffer Pavilion, Gruinard Bay, Carn Eige, Bealach na Ba, Dornoch Firth, Black Rock Gorge, River Carron, Wester Ross, Ferintosh, Black Isle, Black Isle Brewery, River Sgitheach, Allt Graad, Archdeacon of Ross, Loch Veyatie, Eilean Horrisdale, Dundonnell and Fisherfield Forest, Coigach, Beauly Firth, Easter Ross, Inner Sound, Scotland, Letterewe, River Conon, Lord Lieutenant of Cromarty, Morefield, Kiltearn, Achnahaird Bay. Excerpt: The Macaulay family of Uig in Lewis, known in Scottish Gaelic as Clann mhic Amhlaigh, were a small family located around Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. There is no connection between the Macaulays of Lewis and Clan MacAulay which was centred in the Loch Lomond area, bordering the Scottish Highlands and Scottish Lowlands. The Macaulays of Lewis are generally said to be of Norse origin because of the etymology of their surname and also because of the islands' Viking Age past. However, a recent analysis of the Y-DNA of men with Scottish surnames has shown that a large number of Hebridean Macaulays are of Irish origin. In the 17th century, however, tradition gave the Macaulays an Irish (or Gaelic) origin. By the end of the 16th century the dominant clan on Lewis was Clan Macleod of The Lewes. Other notable Lewis clans were the somewhat smaller Morrisons of Ness and the even less numerous Macaulays of Uig. The...
