Macleods

Part of the archipelago in the Inner Hebrides known as the Small Isles (along with siblings Muck, Canna and Rum), Eigg has a fascinating, eventful history, including a lengthy feud between the Macdonalds and Macleods in the 16th century that led to the death of the island's entire population, suffocated in an act of clan warfare in a spot now known as the Massacre Cave.

Weird and wonderful: Scotland's Away Game music festival Luke Bainbridge 2010

CONS: I just can't get into Macleods writing style, ending seemed to be very rushed.

April 2006 2006

CONS: I just can't get into Macleods writing style, ending seemed to be very rushed.

REVIEW: Learning The World by Ken Macleod 2006

For the last 800 years St. Kilda was owned mainly by the Macleods of Dunvegan.

St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom 2008

Macleod remains a common last name: 116 of the 1,800 residents who work for the Lewis town council are Macleods.

Bonnie Donny, 2007

At a meeting one morning recently, three of four members of the council were Macleods, all unrelated to one another.

Bonnie Donny, 2007

Some suppose it the original seat of the chiefs of the Macleods.

A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

The inhabitants of the Isle of Egg, meeting a boat manned by Macleods, tied the crew hand and foot, and set them a-drift.

A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

At that instant one of the Macleods came to his rescue; who, as it is said, offered quarter to the dragoon, but he thought himself obliged to reject what he had before refused, and, as battle gives little time to deliberate, was immediately killed.

A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

I do not suppose that any actual agreement or compact was made between Mr Vavasor and the Macleods; but it came to be understood between them that if he made no demand upon them for his daughter's money, and allowed them to have charge of her education, they would do something for him.

Can You Forgive Her? 1993