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 be
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.
Dubhghall mac Suibhne was a Scottish landholder in Argyll, and a leading member of Clann Suibhne. He was a son of Suibhne mac Duinn Shléibhe, and appears to have held lordship of Knapdale from at leas
Eóin Mac Suibhne
…certainly reported to have perished in Ireland, as the prisoner of the Earl of Ulster, in 1267. As late as 1261, an earlier member of the clan, a certain Dubhghall mac Suibhne, is reported to have been the lord of Skipness Castle and its adjacent chapel. That year, according to a charter witnessed by Walter Stewart, Earl of…
Now-ruinous Lochranza Castle may have been built by Dubhghall. The visible tower house is what remains of a late mediaeval redevelopment of a thirteenth-century hall house.
Ruinous Castle Sween, one of Scotland's oldest standing stone castles, seems to have been built by Dubhghall's father, eponym of both Clann Suibhne and the castle itself.
Coat of arms of Alexander II as it appears on folio 146v of British Library Royal 14 C VII (Historia Anglorum). The inverted shield represents the king's death in 1249.