The Highlanders of Scotland - Clan Strachan Society

242 THE HIGHLANDERS [part li
The family of Glengarry have since then not only claimed the
chiefship
of the clan Ranald, but likewise that of the whole
clan Donald, as undoubted representative of Donald, the
common ancestor of the clan and when the services rendered
;
b\- the famil\- to the house of Stuart were rewarded by a
peerage from Charles H., Glengarry indicated his rights by
assuming the title of Lord Macdonell and Arross, which, on
the failure of male heirs of his bodv', did not descend to his
successors, although his lands formed in consequence the barony
of Macdonell.
Arms.
Quarterly. First— Or, a lion rampant, azure, armed and langued, gules.
Second—A dexter hand coupee, holding a cross crosslet, fitchee sable.
Third— Or, a ship with her sails furled, salterwise, sable. Fourth—
A salmon naiant, proper, with a chief waved argent.
Heath.
Principal Seat.
Isla.
Oldest Cadet.
Mac Alaster of Loup, now Somerville Macalister of Kennox.
C/iief.
The Ranaldson IMacdonells, of ?kIacdonell and Glengarry, are the unquestionable
male representatives of the founder of the clan, and therefore
possess the right of blood to the chiefship.
Force.
In 1427 the Macdonells of Garmoran and Lochaber mustered 2000 men.
In 171 5, the whole clan, 2S20. In 1745, 2350.
Cla)t Diigall.
The jMacdogalls have, in general, been derived from Dogall,
the eldest son of Somerled, and it has been hitherto assumed,
that Alexander de Ergadia, who first appears in 1284, and who
was the undoubted ancestor of the clan, was the son of Ewen
de Ergadia, or king Ewen, who appears so prominently at the
period of the cession of the Isles. Bat this derivation, to which
the resemblance of name has probably given rise, is unquestion-
ably erroneous, for independently of the fact that there is strong
evidence for king Ewen having died without male issue, it is