Clan Donald Magazine No11 (1987) Online
Clanranald Gathering At Castle Tioram
On Friday 25th May
1984, Clanranald and Lady Clanranald and their family were at the
ancient seat of the Clan Ranald, Castle Tioram, in Loch Moidart, to
receive clansmen and guests, many of whom were on their way to
attend the ceremony at Armadale the following day. A marquee had
been pitched on Eilean Tioram, the little island on which the
stronghold is situated and the Chief's banner waved vigorously in
the wind from a pole erected for the occasion. The visiting
clansfolk and guests were entertained with food and drink as in days
of yore and by sweet music from the "faery pipes" of Clanranald,
played by Archie Maclntyre, descendant of the hereditary pipers to
Clanranald. The company were invited to enter the Castle, the
ramparts of which had been decorated with pennants, where a service
was conducted by the Rev. H. McShane, after which the gathering was
addressed by
Clanranald and Dr
Alastair MacLean, South Uist, author of the the book "A MacDonald
for the Prince," a biography of Neil MacEachan, father of the
French Napoleonic Marshal Jacques Etienne MacDonald, Duke of
Tarentum. Clanranald, in welcoming the company, expressed the hope
that Castle Tioram would evetually be transferred to a trust which
would preserve it for the Clan for all time.
N.H.M.
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