The Conflict of
Blar-na-Pairc
After the Lord of the Isles had resigned the Earldom of Ross
into the King's hands, the year of God 1477, that province was continually vexed and
molested with incursions of the Islanders.
Gillespick (cousin to Macdonald), gathering a company of men,
invaded the height of that country with great hostility; which, the inhabitants perceiving
(and especially the Clan Mackenzie), they assembled speedily together, and met the
Islanders beside the river of Conon, about two miles from Brayle, where there ensued a
sharp and cruel skirmish.
The Clan Mackenzie fought so hardly, and pressed the enemy
so, that in the end Gillespick Macdonald was overthrown and chased, the most part of his
men being either slain or drowned in the river of Conon; and this was called
Blar-na-Paire. |
