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THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 205
Angus Uaibhreach, was taken prisoner, antl was put to death at
Inveraray some time after that.
Alastei-, son of Colla, went to Ireland, and he was killed at
Cnoc-na-n-Dos, with many other gentlemen of the Clan Mac-
donnell, in the battle which Murchadh O'Brien gave them in the
year 1647.
This great army of David Leslie, and Mac Cailin along with
them, came to Islay and to Mull, and all submitted to tliem
except John Moydartach alone and those who joined him.
[Follows Eulogy on Donald of Moydart. See Elegies, &c.]
With regard to John Moydartach, son of Donald, son of Allan,
laird of Clanranald, being forsaken by all after Montrose and the
Marquis of Huntly had been put to death, and such as lived of
the gentry who were on the King's side had been banished to
strange foreign countries, he alone stood out from the (Rulers of
the) Kingdom ; and the few that lived of the party on the King's
side were gathering round him. Messages? were constantly sent to
him from the Rulers of the Kingdom requesting him to make
peace with them, but lie did not accept them. However, he sent
his son Donald to Ireland, and all those who remained with him of
the men of Ireland, and some of his Scottish gentlemen along with
them, and he himself and the rest of his men remained to defend
his inheritance.
As to Donald, he set ofl' from Uist in a rigged low-countr}'
frigate which he had, and in a long Gaelic ship, with about 300
soldiers, composed of veterans, in the year 1648. From thence
they went to the Sound of Mull, to Colonsay, and to the Sound of
Islay, where they fell in with a large ship, which they captured
with her full cargo of barley corn ; they took another ship on the
sea, found nothing in her, and they let her away. They
sailed for Ireland, they were overtaken by a storm on the coast,
so that their ships were separated. Some of them reached the
harbour of Killybegs in Donegal. Donald and those who were
along with him landed on the point of Magilligan in County
Derry, and they sent back the ships to Scotland. He went, to
Achagh Dacharad, wliere there was a garrison favourable to
them. From thence they went to the County of Cavan, wliere
they met Philip O'Reilly, chief of that country, and a friend of
theirs. They went from thence to Mullingar, and he left his men
quartered in that town, and he himself went to Kilkenny, where
the Council of Ireland were sitting. He received orders for him-
self and his men to join the Council's army under the command
of Ceneral Preston. That is the array in which was Alexander, the
Earl of Antrim's son, and those who lived of the Scots and Irish of
the Mac Donnells and their friends, who went over with Alaster,