Alasdair Óg of Islay
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Alasdair Óg Mac Domhnaill was Lord of Islay and chief of Clann Domhnaill. He was the eldest son of Aonghus Mór mac Domhnaill, Lord of Islay. Alasdair Óg seems to first appear on record in 1264, when h
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Either Skipness Castle (pictured) or Dunaverty Castle could have been the principal seat of the steward in Kintyre. Either may have been the fortress that Alasdair Óg was on verge of storming in September 1296 when he informed the English Crown of his progress in securing control of Kintyre.
The arms of the Lord of Argyll depicted in the fourteenth-century Balliol Roll.
Aonghus Óg of Islay
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Aonghus Óg Mac Domhnaill, or Angus Og MacDonald, was a fourteenth-century Scottish magnate and chief of Clann Domhnaill. He was a younger son of Aonghus Mór mac Domhnaill, Lord of Islay. After the lat
Alasdair Óg of Islay
…Domhnall's elder brother) Ruaidhrí mac Raghnaill. Alasdair Óg had a sister who married Domhnall Óg Ó Domhnaill, King of Tír Chonaill; a younger brother, Aonghus Óg; another brother, Eóin Sprangach, ancestor of the Ardnamurchan branch of Clann Domhnaill; and a sister who married Hugh Bisset. The personal name…
Now-ruinous Dunyvaig Castle. It is conceivable that Robert I found refuge at this Clann Domhnaill fortress in 1306. Whether he was harboured at the hands of Aonghus Óg himself or some other rival chieftain is uncertain.
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An imaginative nineteenth-century depiction of Aonghus Óg at the Battle of Bannockburn.