Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 56 minutes ago
Built for Clanranald, Dùn Raghnaill also has a link to Clann 'ic Mhuirich, as Tommy Macdonald explains while relating connected stories.
Tommy tells the story of why Dùn Raghnaill was built - to protect the clan chief Mac 'ic Ailein from his own family - in a time of sometimes bloody sea-borne raids along the Minch. According to local history, it was later used to imprison a daring sea-faring Mac Mhuirich, whose hereditary bardic skills were such that the style of his composition from within the prison walls of the song "Mulaid prìosanach ann an Dùn Raghnaill" was sufficient for him to be recognised and identified by his own estranged father.
Built for Clanranald, Dùn Raghnaill also has a link to Clann 'ic Mhuirich, as Tommy Macdonald explains while relating connected stories.
Tommy tells the story of why Dùn Raghnaill was built - to protect the clan chief Mac 'ic Ailein from his own family - in a time of sometimes bloody sea-borne raids along the Minch. According to local history, it was later used to imprison a daring sea-faring Mac Mhuirich, whose hereditary bardic skills were such that the style of his composition from within the prison walls of the song "Mulaid prìosanach ann an Dùn Raghnaill" was sufficient for him to be recognised and identified by his own estranged father.
