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Further references to members of the family are sparse at this early period but what there are imply that the family was a professional, learned one, one of the ‘Aes Dana’. If this is an accurate statement then the MacArthurs must have been on Loch Awe at least by the year 1200. The Arthur of Orchy in ‘Ane Accompt’ would seem a likely reference to the connection of the MacArthurs with the north end of Loch Awe while the Drynach added as identification to Patrick Drynach is a reference to Inistrynich - the one-time Island in the same Loch.Īn early reference to MacArthurs here occurs in ‘The Manuscript History of Craignish’ where Dougall Campbell of Craignish who is said to have succeeded his father around 1250 ‘was nursed as his Father & Grandfather were, ever since the Maceachairns left Craiginsh by a principal Family of the MacArthurs on Lochow, & so the whole race continued to be nursed by them untill the unhallowed Christian gave that fatal blow to the Estate anno 1361. Loch Awe seems to have been early on the area from which various MacArthurs hail. Where these MacArthurs came from is unknown but it has been claimed that they were MacDonalds by descent as they certainly were by allegiance. The collection is the earliest complete collection of Pipe Music on the stave. Angus was the author of MacArthur's manuscript collection of Pipe Tunes, written at his dictation by John McGregor, around 1800. The last hereditary piper of this line, according to Angus Mackay's account was Angus, son of John Bane, whose brother Charles MacArthur was taught by Padruig Og MacCrimmon. where they held a croft for their services. Pennant's report of his visit to Lord MacDonald's piper in 1774 would imply that there was a school of instruction at Penigorm near Duntulm. The pipers were said to have come to Skye from Ulva, off Mull, where they had a school of piping. And a family of MacArthurs - possibly kin to the Islay armourers were pipers to MacDonald of Sleat on Skye.
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In more modern times there was a family of MacArthurs on Islay who were armourers to the Lords of the Isles the tombstone of MacArthur of Proaig in Kildalton churchyard is a unique one for the period substituting a musket for the more prevalent claymore.
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The MacArthurs of Darleith have been identified by David Sellar as coming from the MacAulays of Ardencaple. In fact it is quite clear that various MacArthur families derive from more than one stem. (1) (HP ii, 80.)Īs with so much in ‘Ane Accompt’ the compiler of the pedigree is using an impressionistic rather than a representational brush what he is in fact admitting is that he realises there are various MacArthur families but does not know how they fit together, if at all. This last Arthur Andrairan was said to have two sons, Patrick Drynach from whom came the MacArthurs of Inistrynich on Loch Awe and Duncan Darleith from whom the MacArthurs of Darleith. The name occurs several times in ‘Ane Accompt of the Genealogie of the Campbells’ where Diarmid O'Duine's son is Arthur Armdhearg.Īrthur Armdhearg has no less than three sons called Arthur - Arthur ‘Urchanach’ -‘of the Orchy’, Arthur Cruachan and Arthur Andrairan. The name seems to have had strong connections with the Lennox, the area around Loch Lomond, part of the British Kingdom of Strathclyde, where it was used by such local clans as the Galbraiths and the MacArthurs of Darleith as well as by the Campbells all of whom are reckoned to be of Lennox origin. Of more local interest was Arthur, son of Aidan, a Prince of the Scots who was killed in 596 when the Scots were in battle against the Pictish Miathi. This use then faded until the 13th century when in answer to the French ‘Chansons de Geste’, the fabulous tales of King Arthur and the Round Table developed. There is little known of him from contemporary sources but he was clearly someone of substance given the number of occasions on which his name was used by later generations. Its most famous holder was Arthur, a leader of the Britons in the fight against the Anglo-Saxons around the year 500.
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The name Arthur is a Celtic one - of ancient Briton origin, Artos meaning a bear.