Clan Mackenzie is a Highland Scottish clan associated with Kintail and Ross-shire. Its chiefs trace their lineage to the 12th century, though the earliest recorded chief is Alexander Mackenzie of Kint
The ruins of Eilean Donan Castle, an early stronghold of the Mackenzies of Kintail and their allies, the Clan MacRae, who were constables of the castle for the Mackenzies. It is located in the Lochalsh district in western Ross-shire.
The earliest likeness of a Mackenzie - the effigy of Kenneth Mackenzie, 7th of Kintail (d. 1491/ 1492) located at Beauly Priory.
Castle Leod is a historic castle and traditional seat of Clan Mackenzie. The castle is located in the village of Strathpeffer, about a half-hour drive northwest of Inverness.
Commemorative stone to the Mackenzies of Seaforth on the Isle of Lewis. The Mackenzie chief's title of Earl of Seaforth took its name from Loch Seaforth between the Isles of Lewis and Harris
Eilean Donan is a small tidal island situated at the confluence of three sea lochs in the western Highlands of Scotland, about one kilometre from the village of Dornie. It is connected to the mainland
Clan Mackenzie
…are descended from the thirteenth century Kermac Macmaghan. The chiefs of the Clan Mackenzie are said to have been settled at their great stronghold on Eilean Donan by 1297. All of the earliest traditional Clan Mackenzie histories claim descent from a Fitzgerald progenitor. These histories include those by John…
Aerial view of Eilean Donan
Kenneth Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Seaforth, was brought up at Eilean Donan by Rev. Farquhar Macrae.
Castle ruins, sometime before 1911