Old Photograph Cottages And Houses Oronsay Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses on the Isle of Oronsay, Scottish Gaelic: Orasaigh, a small tidal island south of Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. By the early 17th century land on Colonsay was held by both Clan Macfie and Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg. In 1623 Coll Ciotach also known as Colkitto, a Dunnyveg mercenary, was charged with the murder of Malcolm MacFie. MacFie had been hiding on Eilean nan Ròn, an islet south west of Oronsay, but he was spotted there by Colkitto's men, apprehended and then tied to a stone and summarily shot. However, afer the death of their chief, the MacFies lost control of their lands and by 1630 Colkitto held the whole of Colonsay and Oronsay from the Campbell Earl of Argyll. However, not long after this Colkitto lost his own life in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and by 1701 the Campbells had sold both islands to a MacNeill of Knapdale, whose family held these lands until the early 20th century.



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