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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 660226
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/660226
NH42SE 2 472 219.
(Name: NH 472 219) Lon na Fola. Site of Battle between the Macdonnells of Glengarry and the Mackenzies of Ross-shire. A.D.1602. {NAT}
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
The defeat by the MacKenzies of the Macdonalds of Glengarry took place at Lon na Fala, the Meadow of Blood, on the west shore of Loch Ness. The Macdonalds, under Allan MacRanald (Allan Dubh), were returning from an invasion in September 1603, of the Mackenzie country and the burning of the Church of Kilchrist.
W MacKay 1914
The site of this battle is known locally. No recent finds have been reported.
Visited by OS (R D) 24 July 1964
