Old Photograph Crofters Cottage Dunvegan Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of a crofters cottage in Dunvegan on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Dunvegan is situated at the junction of the A850, and the A863. The B884 road also has a junction with the A863, at the eastern end of Dunvegan. It is thought that the name Dùn Bheagain derives from Old Gaelic Dùn Bheccáin.

During the Jacobite rising of 1745 the chief of the Clan MacLeod, Norman MacLeod of Dunvegan, did not support the Jacobites and instead raised several Independent Highland Companies in support of the Government forces. The chief led 500 men of the MacLeod Independent Highland Companies in support of the Government at the Battle of Inverurie, on 23 December 1745, where they were defeated. The Macleods of Raasay, a branch of the MacLeods of Lewis, fought at the Battle of Culloden as part of the Glengarry Regiment, in retribution, the MacLeods of Dunvegan, under their chief, Norman MacLeod, burned and pillaged the Island of Raasay, harassing its inhabitants for many weeks in the late summer of 1746. As a result, Norman MacLeod became known as The Wicked Man. In 1745, MacLeod of Dunvegan was said to have been able to " bring out " 700 men.



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