Tour Scotland Travel Video Clan MacDonald of Sleat Castle Isle Of Skye Inner Hebrides

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of the Clan MacDonald of Sleat castle on ancestry visit to the coast of Trotternish, Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Clan Macdonald of Sleat, sometimes known as Clan Donald North and in Gaelic, Clann Ùisdein, is a Scottish clan and a branch of Clan Donald, one of the largest Scottish clans. The founder of the Macdonalds of Sleat was Ùisdean, or Hugh, a 6th great grandson of Somerled, a 12th century Lord of the Isles. The clan is known in Gaelic as Clann Ùisdein, meaning " children of Ùisdein ", and its chief's Gaelic designation is Mac Ùisdein, means " son of Ùisdean ", in reference to the clan's founder. The Macdonalds of Sleat participated in several feuds with neighbouring clans, most notably the Macleods of Harris and Dunvegan and the Macleans of Duart. The clan also suffered from infighting in the early 16th century, as the leading members of the clan fought and murdered each other. The clan supported the Jacobite cause in the 1715 rebellion, yet refused to come out for Bonnie Prince Charlie and his father a generation later in 1745. In the early 18th century, the clan's chief was involved in a plan to sell tenants into slavery in the American Colonies. By the late 18th century, the chiefs had alienated themselves from the common clansfolk, when they seated themselves in northern England and rarely visited the old clan lands. The 18th and 19th centuries witnessed the suffering of the common clansfolk, as many were cleared off their lands at the hands of their absentee landlords. Today members and descendants of the clan live all over the world.

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