Eóin Mac Suibhne was a fourteenth-century Scottish nobleman and a leading member of Clann Suibhne. In the middle of the thirteenth century, seemingly during the 1260s, Eóin's family appears to have been ejected from its homeland in Argyll by the Stewart/Menteith kindred. It may have been during this period that members of Clann Suibhne took up residence in Ireland.
The effigy of Walter Stewart, Earl of Menteith and his wife, Mary I, Countess of Menteith.
Ruinous Castle Sween, a stronghold seemingly built by Suibhne, eponym of both Clann Suibhne and the castle itself.
A fourteenth-century illumination of Edward II on folio 105r of Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson C 292.
Ruinous Skipness Castle was a Clann Suibhne stronghold until the thirteenth century. As late as 1261, it was held by Eóin's predecessor, Dubhghall mac Suibhne, a man who may have built the castle.
Murchadh Mac Suibhne was a leading member of Clann Suibhne. He was a grandson of the family's eponymous ancestor Suibhne mac Duinn Shléibhe, and a nephew of the family's mid-thirteenth-century representative, Dubhghall mac Suibhne.
Now-ruinous Skipness Castle may have been constructed by Murchadh's uncle, Dubhghall mac Suibhne. The fortress is first attested in 1261 by a charter that describes Dubhghall as the castle's lord. Murchadh is listed as one of the charter witnesses.
The effigy of Walter Stewart, Earl of Menteith and his wife, Mary I, Countess of Menteith. It is the earliest effigy of a married couple, side by side on the same tomb, in the British Isles.
The coat of arms of Hákon Hákonarson as depicted on folio 150r of British Library Royal 14 C VII (Historia Anglorum).
The view from the ruins of Skipness Castle in Kintyre, across the Kilbrannan Sound, towards Arran. In 1263, Hákon granted Murchadh the island for his service to the Norwegian Crown. The castle across the sound from Skipness, Lochranza Castle, may have been built by Dubhghall.
